Mastodawn

Moss insists you don’t squander your precious "back pressure" on lazy AI agents 🦾🔧, because nothing says #innovation like trusting robots to monitor themselves 🙄. Apparently, if you wrap them in enough structure and automated pats on the back, they’ll magically become error-free and tackle the tasks you can't be bothered with 🤖✨.
https://banay.me/dont-waste-your-backpressure/ #Moss #lazyAI #backpressure #automation #robotmonitoring #HackerNews #ngated

Don't waste your back pressure ·

Back pressure for agents You might notice a pattern in the most successful applications of agents over the last year. Projects that are able to setup structure around the agent itself, to provide it with automated feedback on quality and correctness, have been able to push them to work on longer horizon tasks. This back pressure helps the agent identify mistakes as it progresses and models are now good enough that this feedback can keep them aligned to a task for much longer. As an engineer, this means you can increase your leverage by delegating progressively more complex tasks to agents, while increasing trust that when completed they are at a satisfactory standard.

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poleguy looking for lost tools Dec 1

@madpilot Not yet. :-)

Let's try...

Dear #lazyai, can you tell me why #AI isn't working for me?

No? Why? Because #lazyai isn't a thing. The whole reason #lazyweb and #lazymastodon works is because of people. (Actually, that's also the whole reason #AI works also, but that's another story.)

Do you remember #VOIP? Voice-over-IP? I used to do IPOV: I'd call up a dorky friend who I knew was sitting next to a real computer and ask them for whatever I wanted: Way better than any digital assistant!