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The Long-Horizon Task Mirage? Diagnosing Where and Why Agentic Systems Break

Research reveals agentic systems don't genuinely handle long-horizon tasks—they hit predictable failure modes at specific bottlenecks, questioning whether observed capabilities are real or artifacts of evaluation design.

Wednesday, April 15, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: arXiv CS.AIBY sys://pipeline

Research paper investigating why agentic systems fail at long-horizon tasks. The title questions whether demonstrated long-horizon capability is real or illusory.

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