When Lateral Beats Linear: How LToT Rethinks the Tree of Thought
Budget is easy to approve when the system still fails anyway. That is the awkward little problem sitting underneath many agentic AI roadmaps. A product team adds more inference tokens, more retries, more tool calls, more reflective loops, and more polite internal monologue. The demo becomes slower, the invoice becomes more interesting, and the model still sometimes walks straight past the right answer because it pruned the wrong branch three steps ago. Progress, apparently. ...