Agents fail from low expectations, not high constraints, argues KarlMuth
KarlMuth · x · 2026-09-03
Responding to Andrew Ng on agent autonomy, KarlMuth argues agents fail from low expectations rather than excessive constraints. Drawing on Amy Chua and Morrison's (1994) OCB model, he suggests specifying refusal conditions, stop rules and expected outcomes, citing the ReAct paper (Shunyu Yao et al.) as essential reading on interleaving reasoning and action.
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