Multiple Labs Find 'Idea Basins' Trap AI Agents in Old Approaches

Multiple labs independently found 'idea basins': autonomous agents get stuck in previously tried approaches within local regions of the solution space; a comparison found GPT-5.6 Sol the least likely to get stuck and the broadest explorer.

2026-11-13 ~ 2026-11-13 · 3 related posts

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