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François Chollet Says AI’s Shift to Inductive Reasoning Made Coding Agents Work

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François Chollet said AI has shifted from token-by-token answer completion to synthesizing reasoning chains on the fly, and credited that change with making coding agents work. In a post on X, he described the former approach as a “transductive paradigm” and the latter as an “inductive paradigm,” calling the shift the big story of 2025 and 2026.

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How AI shifted from a transductive paradigm (token-by-token answer completion) to an inductive paradigm (on-the-fly reasoning chain synthesis), in one chart. This is the big story of 2025 and 2026. This is what made coding agents work.François Chollet · X

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    How AI shifted from a transductive paradigm (token-by-token answer completion) to an inductive paradigm (on-the-fly reasoning chain synthesis), in one chart. This is the big story of 2025 and 2026. This is what made coding agents work.

    How AI shifted from a transductive paradigm (token-by-token answer completion) to an inductive paradigm (on-the-fly reasoning chain synthesis), in one chart. This is the big story of 2025 and 2026. This is what made coding agents work.

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