When Puzzles Become Process: Benchmarking the Agentic Mind
More thinking is not the same as better work A manager asks an AI agent to reconcile invoices, check a procurement exception, or review a regulatory document. The agent pauses, consumes a heroic number of tokens, and returns a polished answer. Very impressive. Very modern. Also, perhaps, completely wrong. The industry has become comfortable with a simple story: give models more reasoning budget and they will reason better. That story is not false. It is merely incomplete, which is where most expensive mistakes prefer to live. ...