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How to Improve Your Agents: Academic Lit Review
Takeaway
Agent progress maps onto self-driving-style autonomy levels — most production agents sit at L2/L3, with multi-task L4 emerging.
Summary
- Columbia researcher surveys the agent literature using a self-driving-style autonomy taxonomy: L1 chatbot → L2 agent assist → L3 agent-as-service → L4 multi-task autonomous → L5 full autonomy.
- Frames agents as perception → reasoning (CoT) → reflection → action loops, grounded in Norvig/Russell's classical AI definition.
- Reviews academic critiques (AutoGPT failures, 'just LLM wrappers') and counter-evidence from recent benchmarks showing tool-use planning improvements.
- Practitioner takeaways on planning, tool use, memory, and reflection from recent papers.
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