This is an interesting paper – using general purpose LLMs to manage tasks over a period of time. The actual test case is rather simple – manage a vending machine – and would probably be better solvable via alternative, specialised methods, but some of the results seem to show that there is the potential for a general purpose task management solution that can be applied to a wide number of problems.

I also found that the ‘self-narrative’ solution that a run of the Gemini 2.0 Flash model used to bootstrap an exit from it’s doom spiral to be quite intriguing.

The Arxiv page can be found here and the pdf of the paper can be found here.