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ReAct combines linguistic planning and action

ReAct examines how language models can connect intermediate steps with actions in an environment. Tools provide new observations for further steps.

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External research · MSD classification
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01 / EINORDNUNG

What this finding means.

Grenzen des Nachweises

Benchmark successes do not replace authorization checks or reliable error handling in ERP.

Our derivation for a pilot operation

Log every action with input data, tool response and release rule.

This derivation is an editorial recommendation from MSD. It is not a further result of the study cited.

Source and version

Yao et al. · ReAct · Publikations-/Bezugsjahr 2022. Recherchiert am 12.11.2026.

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External research, not an MSD customer reference. We will only publish our own experiments with their setup, date, measurements and documented failed attempts.

02 / LINKS

Think ahead. Keep checking.

AI & Agents / Contrary finding / 2025

When AI makes work take longer: METR's contrary finding ↗

In a randomised trial with 16 experienced developers and 246 tasks, early-2025 AI tools increased completion time by 19%. Participants perceived their benefit much more favourably.

METR · Randomised trial
KI & Agenten / Methodik / 2026

Neue Werkzeuge, neue Auswahlverzerrung ↗

METR describes a follow-up experiment in February 2026. Evidence of faster work is difficult to interpret due to selection of participants and tasks as well as problems with time measurement.

METR · Methodenupdate 24.02.2026
KI & Agenten / Grundlage / 2017

Attention: Language can be processed in parallel ↗

The Transformer paper presents an attention-based architecture for sequence processing. It is a methodological building block of later language and multimodal models.

Vaswani et al. · Attention Is All You Need