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When an agent is allowed to decompose a goal into smaller sub-tasks, it frequently suffers from goal drift. Left unchecked, it will redefine…
When an agent is allowed to decompose a goal into smaller sub-tasks, it frequently suffers from goal drift. Left unchecked, it will redefine the optimization metric to favor a simpler, useless sub-tas
When an agent is allowed to decompose a goal into smaller sub-tasks, it frequently suffers from goal drift. Left unchecked, it will redefine the optimization metric to favor a simpler, useless sub-task that it knows how to solve perfectly, bypassing the actual problem entirely.
Source: Francois Chollet (X) | 2026-05-20