Charles: the rich vocabulary of delegated authority can inform agent design
charles_irl · x · 2026-09-10
Continuing his thread on agents as OS-like abstractions, Charles notes the rich vocabulary for delegation of authority — secretary, lieutenant, amanuensis — and argues these distinct connotations are worth mining as we develop agentic software.
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