Agents only have pretraining and RL experience, and that's their core gap
_arohan_ · x · 2026-10-11
- Researcher arohan argues today's agents lack lived experience: humans connect a new optimization paper to what they did hands-on in 2015.
- Agents only carry experience from pretraining and RL, with no real-world history to draw on — a structural limitation for long-horizon autonomy.
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