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Every mistake added a rule: the complexity trap of the agent operator
Each mistake becomes a rule, the prompt grows, compaction comes sooner and new mistakes follow; the way out is fewer, enforced rules, re-anchored after every summary.
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Where it comes from
- Every mistake added a rule the trap (newsroom)
- Re-anchoring summarised 18 times in a month (newsroom)
What it answers in the 2018 book
- Changes answered outline, Concepts
Where it goes
Chapter How to work with agents, part Working with agents (drafting); topic How to work with agents: briefs, voice, one shared state.
Other ideas proposed for the same chapter: An agent is a session with a focus: one session per topic, named, with a role file, The brief is the unit of work, and writing it as an article forces the research, Omnichannel programming: brief by voice, review on the phone, one shared state, A wording correction is made once and enforced; a content correction is new thinking every time.
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