Agentic AI is just arranging the world around a next-token guesser, says Microsoft's Seth Juarez
sethjuarez · x · 2026-09-18
Microsoft's Seth Juarez argues that a browsing model is still just guessing the next token—the whole art of 'agentic' is arranging the world around that guesser so its output means something to a program. Next up: 'shapes code can trust,' i.e. trustworthy structured outputs.
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