From Chatbot to Agent: The ReAct Loop That Changed Everything

How interleaving reasoning and action transforms text generators into problem-solving systems Photo by Faris Mohammed on Unsplash For years, we called systems “intelligent” when they could produce convincing text. That was an understandable mistake. The output looked coherent, the tone felt confident, and the latency was low enough to make the interaction feel alive. But the moment you asked one of those systems to verify a live fact, inspect the result of an API call, or revise a plan after new evidence arrived, the illusion started to crack.