LLMs Fail Long-Horizon Tasks Due to 'Cognitive Inertia', RL Can Fix
burny_tech · x · 2026-08-17
The tweet argues that LLMs fail at long-horizon tasks not because of context limits but due to 'cognitive inertia'—carrying over the reasoning format of step N to step N+1 when a different skill is needed. The author suggests fixing this with reinforcement learning and provides a thread.
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