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From one piece Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A plan handed to an agent should already have made meaningful contact with the important parts of reality.Their words
By the time we hand the plan over, it should already have made meaningful contact with the important parts of reality.
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The agent is not the prioritised party in this interaction. We are. The agent should be doing far more labour for human benefit.
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Another way to put this is that our interfaces between humans and agents are very thin. There's not a lot of translation between what humans see and what agents see.
18 August
From one piece August 2026 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I am genuinely hopeful agents might put a dent in this problem, in the same way washing machines and dishwashers did.
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There is no shortage of physical, social, educational, and cultural work that we need humans to do for one another that cannot, in any wild imagining of agent capabilities, be done by our current or near-future robots. We just can't figure out how we would pay people enough to do these jobs.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
YesteryearTheir words
Yesteryear and loved it, just like everyone else. Strong recommend.
18 July
From one piece In Memoriam, Encountering World War I, and Thinkable Horrors 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It reminded me we are not as far as we like to imagine from mass, global, industrial-scale death. Just over a hundred years past it. Likely only a few decades from it.
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I considered how quickly we forget this level of suffering is possible. How easily it becomes acceptable.
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Fiction can often tell a more comprehensive and representative story of history than any single "true" account by stitching together many people's lived experiences, then zooming out to explain the context across multiple characters.
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From one piece One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignment 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Pull requests and issues are the wrong primitives for the speed, shape and volume of agentic software work.Their words
The PR and the issue are the wrong primitives that can't handle the speed, shape, and volume of agentic work.
One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignmentmaggieappleton.com
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More individual output does not solve problems that need a team to communicate and coordinate; it makes them worse.Their words
More individual output doesn't solve problems that require everyone to communicate and coordinate. It makes them worse.
One Developer, Two Dozen Agents, Zero Alignmentmaggieappleton.com
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With implementation cheap, deciding what to build is the hard question in software, not how to build it.Their words
The hard question is no longer how to build it. It's should we build it. Agreeing on what to build is the new bottleneck.
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