AI shifts from token-by-token completion to on-the-fly reasoning synthesis
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François Chollet says AI has moved from a transductive paradigm of token-by-token answer completion to an inductive paradigm that synthesizes reasoning chains on the fly.
He calls this the big story of 2025 and 2026 and says the shift is what made coding agents work. The claim appears in a single post on X and comes with no supporting data or examples.
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François Chollet@fcholletXAI shifts from token-by-token completion to on-the-fly reasoning synthesisAIFrançois Chollet says AI moved from a transductive paradigm of token-by-token answer completion to an inductive paradigm of on-the-fly reasoning chain synthesis, which he calls the big story of 2025 and 2026. He says this shift is what made coding agents work.

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