Agents 2.0: From Shallow Loops to Deep Agents—Unlocking AI’s True Depth in Thinking

Picture this: You’re a harried AI developer with a beast of a task on your plate—research the latest breakthroughs in quantum computing and whip up a structured report for your team. You fire up a basic AI agent, the kind built on a trusty while loop, and it dives in. It smartly calls a search tool, snags a bunch of paper abstracts, and starts piecing together insights. But before long, chaos ensues: The context window overflows with raw web scraps, the agent starts hallucinating wild tangents, loses sight of the report’s core goal, and spirals into an endless loop of …