“It’s tempting to hand over an entire project to agents… but it’s easy for agents to get lost in the sauce and create theories that aren’t fully formed”

Eric Bigelow · "The Cognitive Revolution" · How Agents Decide: Goodfire's Eric Bigelow on Critical Tokens, Phase Shifts, & In-Context Learning

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Argues that handing an entire open-ended project to agents without supervision leads to incoherent theories

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