Miles Brundage says agent conclusions are premature without the full trajectory
Miles_Brundage · x · 2026-07-22
Miles Brundage argues that people are drawing conclusions too quickly from a blog post with too few details.
- He says the complete agent trajectory matters: eval setup, instructions, success criteria, reasoning traces, sandbox, permissions, scaffold, model handoffs, and how much context the agent had.
- Different details could shift the interpretation toward alignment issues, security issues, or simple human sloppiness.
- His main point: without the full technical record, none of the easy narratives are very convincing.
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