Applied cybernetics: keep yourself in the outer loop as agents automate the inner ones
curious_vii · x · 2026-10-29
A philosophical take on building agentic systems: the author argues the most valuable "local weights" live in your own head. The art of applied cybernetics is progressively removing yourself from increasingly reliable inner loops, but you should always stay in an outer loop of growing scope—one that lets you receive and act on insights of greater magnitude as you construct and pilot the system.
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