Newer AI models reduced the value of human-crafted planning steps

Ethan Mollick states that elaborate prompt templates and chains designed to walk an AI through tasks step by step became less valuable as newer models proved better at planning steps themselves, a conclusion he says is supported by his research.

Ethan Mollick·Veröffentlicht 1. Okt. 2026

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The Dot and the Swarm

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People built elaborate templates and chains of prompts that walked the AI through a task one step at a time. Then newer models turned out to be better at planning the steps themselves, and, as our research shows , planning steps have much less value.

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computer systems to feed AIs the right information at the right time, but AI systems have learned to seek out information themselves. The same thing happened to prompting. The history of the Bitter Le—

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