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Figure 4.2: Two ways to plan

Two ways to plan.
Figure 4.2 Two ways to plan. Interleaved (left) is a tight cycle: decide one step, act, observe, and decide again—maximally adaptive, structurally myopic. Plan-then-execute (right) has a planner draft the whole plan and an executor work through it. What keeps the second design honest is the replan path in accent: when the executor meets a surprise, control returns to the planner to revise. A plan with no replan arrow is just a blind executor.