Agentic Effort vs Basic Procedure
Basic Generation
Agentic "Thinking" (Extra Effort)
User Question
Direct Final Answer
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User Question
Hidden Tokens: Planning
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Hidden Tokens: Tool Call / Search
Hidden Tokens: Self-Critique
Final Answer
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More computational effort produces better answers, but it is not a mathematically guaranteed proof.