agents
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Locally Rational, Globally Harmful – Learning New Skills #2
I have a 2 year old daughter who is starting to talk. She’s just learned the name for the long orange vehicles we see driving to school in the mornings. “Schoo Busssss” she says any time we see one. She always gets very excited when she sees one because she knows the word now. She… Continue reading
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Why AI-as-a-Judge is Hard – Learning New Skills #1
Post-training will not get us to fully capable agents. These techniques have produced genuinely impressive systems, but they’re brittle at the edges. We’ve all been there: you vibe-code an amazing app, then push the agent toward something less familiar (Angular instead of React, Bazel instead of pip) and it starts falling apart. This was supposed… Continue reading
The Principled Agent 