Curriculum
Module 06
Planning and decomposition
When a plan beats a bigger prompt: plan-then-execute, scratchpads, subtasks and checkpoints, and the cases where planning makes an agent worse.
4 lessons · 11 videos · 3h 33m- 06.01
Plan, then execute
Split a task into a plan step and an execution loop, and say when that helps.
- 06.02
Thinking out loud, on purpose
Use a scratchpad so the model's reasoning is inspectable rather than implied.
- 06.03
Subtasks and checkpoints
Break long work so a failure costs one step, not the whole run.
- 06.04
When planning makes it worse
Spot the tasks where a plan adds latency and error without adding accuracy.