As we scale toward agentic, multimodal systems combining LLMs, RLHF, tool-use, and retrieval-augmented generation, what practical architecture best balances reliability, alignment, and cost?

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Summary

The article debates whether future AI systems should use a unified agent stack or modular ensembles, and advocates for more realistic robustness benchmarks beyond static evaluations.

Specifically: should future AI systems converge into a unified agent stack (planner + memory + tools + verifier), or remain modular ensembles of specialized models (reasoner, critic, retriever, executor)? And how should we benchmark “real-world robustness” beyond static evals to reflect continuous learning, distribution shift, and tool failure in production environments?
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