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Recursion beats the pants off straight LLM again; it's the future, says MIT researcher

Orders-of-magnitude advantage recorded by making long prompts programmatically accessible, says new paper.

Phillip de Wet

Jan 08, 2026 - 3 min read

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What happens if you treat a prompt for a long-horizon task as part of the external environment, so the LLM of your choice can decompose and chew over it recursively?

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