Steering agents: when should long-horizon autonomous agents escalate for feedback?
andreisavu · x · 2026-11-13
Developer andreisavu argues that steering agents is a central, barely-scratched problem: figuring out when and how an agent should escalate for human feedback during long-horizon autonomous work. Ask too often and you lose autonomy's benefit; too rarely and the agent drifts wrong for hours. He adds that prompting an agent for hours of work feels fundamentally different from iterating on changes with it, and current UX — like defining a goal pointing at a file — isn't the right shape yet.
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