Lenny's Podcast•May 2026•12 MIN READ
The Agentic Era: Planning and Memory
As LLMs saturate in reasoning capabilities, the battleground shifts to how these models interact with persistent state and execute multi-step plans in dynamic environments.
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Context Window vs. Retrieval: Giant context windows are useful, but structured retrieval remains more efficient for complex reasoning.
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Planning is the Bottleneck: Current models struggle with deep planning trees; search-based techniques like MCTS are bridging the gap.