"The Agentic Reasoning Era Begins" Sonya Huang and Pat Grady of Sequoia(sequoiacap.com)
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"The Agentic Reasoning Era Begins" Sonya Huang and Pat Grady of Sequoia
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/generative-ais-act-o1/
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I dunno, this seems like a pretty good understanding to me. What more would you ask for, to represent "understanding" that satisfies you?
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(I posed the Wikipedia version of this puzzle, to Claude Sonnet 3.5 free tier)
"A farmer with a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage must cross a river by boat. The boat can carry only the farmer and a single item. If left unattended together, the wolf would eat the goat, or the goat would eat the cabbage. How can they cross the river without anything being eaten? "
Let me think through this step by step, analyzing the constraints from your message:
1. Items to transport: wolf, goat, cabbage 2. Constraints:
1. Initial state: Everyone on starting bank (wolf, goat, cabbage, farmer)
2. First crossing:
Would you like me to explain any part of the solution in more detail?
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(I posed the Wikipedia version of this puzzle, to Claude Sonnet 3.5 free tier)
"A farmer with a wolf, a goat, and a cabbage must cross a river by boat. The boat can carry only the farmer and a single item. If left unattended together, the wolf would eat the goat, or the goat would eat the cabbage. How can they cross the river without anything being eaten? "
Let me think through this step by step, analyzing the constraints from your message:
1. Items to transport: wolf, goat, cabbage 2. Constraints:
- The boat can only carry the farmer plus one item
- Wolf will eat goat if left alone together
- Goat will eat cabbage if left alone together
- The farmer must control the boat
1. Initial state: Everyone on starting bank (wolf, goat, cabbage, farmer)
2. First crossing:
- The farmer must take the goat first
- (If they took the wolf, the goat would eat the cabbage)
- (If they took the cabbage, the wolf would eat the goat)
- Result: Goat is on far bank; wolf and cabbage on starting bank
- Farmer returns alone
- Takes the wolf across
- Returns with the goat
- Result: Wolf on far bank; goat and cabbage on starting bank
- Leaves goat, takes cabbage across
- Result: Wolf and cabbage on far bank; goat on starting bank
- Returns empty to get goat
- Takes goat across
- Done! All items safely across
Would you like me to explain any part of the solution in more detail?
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Actually understanding the wolf, the goat and the cabbage would be a start.