“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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What was described
Argues that handing an entire open-ended project to agents without supervision leads to incoherent theories
Said nearby on the same subject
“It gave me a pretty decent project plan. It drafted the new email that I needed to write. And the whole thing became maybe an hour of my work with a little bit of supervision, instead of, you know, 20 hours project planning”