Apple’s Illusion of Thinking study showed how even strong LLMs lose reliability as reasoning chains grow. Our new research demonstrates the first system to complete 1M+ dependent reasoning steps with zero errors using a decomposed, microagent-based approach.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09030 Blog: https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/ai-lab/blog/maker
Apple’s Illusion of Thinking study showed how even strong LLMs lose reliability as reasoning chains grow. Our new research demonstrates the first system to complete 1M+ dependent reasoning steps with zero errors using a decomposed, microagent-based approach. Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09030 Blog: https://www.cognizant.com/us/en/ai-lab/blog/maker