That is fair, and I think you’re touching exactly on the heart of the issue here.

Your recent experiences with Goose and these richer agent loops highlight what I pointed out: it’s not the quantity of tokens alone that unlocks genuine reasoning and recursion. Instead, reasoning emerges from loops, external memory, scaffolding, and orchestration—precisely as you implicitly acknowledge here by talking about agent loops as a requirement, rather than a luxury.

I appreciate that you’ve implicitly clarified this:

“Tokens alone” aren’t the root solution; structured loops and scaffolding around the transformer architecture are.

Thanks for a thoughtful conversation! It genuinely feels like we’ve arrived at the correct conclusion.