what would it mean to plan ahead? decoding strategies like beam search are popular and effectively predict many words ahead
To be more brain-like you'd really want the system to generally be "looping" internally - a bit like our thalamo-cortical loop - and only start outputting when the thought had gelled.
I suppose whoever downvoted this either hasn't heard of tree-of-thoughts, or doesn't understand what it is and what problem it is addressing. Or, maybe they just didn't like that their "gotcha" question had a simple answer.