Keep Agent Work Small Enough to Steer
Agent work is easier to supervise when each job has a visible boundary and the human can intervene before too many decisions accumulate.
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A personal agent can replace an open-ended trawl through social media with one timely story chosen from a connected view of the news. Signed messages give agents a verifiable way to distinguish an authorised operator from everyone else in a shared chat.
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A personal agent can replace an open-ended trawl through social media with one timely story chosen from a connected view of the news. Signed messages give agents a verifiable way to distinguish an authorised operator from everyone else in a shared chat.
Ideas from Episode 65
Let an agent read the feed for you
A personal agent can replace an open-ended trawl through social media with one timely story chosen from a connected view of the news.
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Put the Workflow in Code
A pipeline can contain agent judgement without surrendering control of the wider process to an open-ended agent loop.
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Software Shaped Around the Business
A shared technical foundation makes it practical to replace generic tools with applications that encode how one company actually operates.
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When Four Sessions Blur the Work
Spreading attention across four agent sessions and three projects can turn building into a hard-to-follow cycle of prompts.
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When Revenue Still Depends on You
A business can earn millions and still remain a time liability when its operation depends on a founder continually sending instructions.
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Who Gets to Command the Agent?
Signed messages give agents a verifiable way to distinguish an authorised operator from everyone else in a shared chat.
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