Thoughts in Motion: From Static Prompts to Self-Optimizing Reasoning Graphs
A workflow looks harmless until it starts waiting on itself. One LLM call asks for a plan. Another evaluates the plan. A third revises the result. A fourth retrieves evidence. Somewhere in the middle, three subtasks could have run at the same time, two repeated calls could have been reused, and one prompt should probably have been tuned before anyone proudly called the system “agentic.” Instead, the whole thing runs as a neat little chain: expensive, slow, and quietly brittle. Very elegant, in the way a traffic jam is elegant if viewed from a drone. ...