
Metacognitive AI: How Agents Learn to Think About Thinking, From Flavell (1979) to Taskade Genesis (2026)
The 50-year arc from "thinking about thinking" to AI agents that monitor their own uncertainty, replan when stuck, and store reflections as memory. Flavell, Nelson-Narens, Fleming, Wells, to Reflexion, Self-Refine, semantic entropy, o1, and Taskade Genesis.

