Building via tickets cares about mechanism; agentic systems should care only about outcomes
_lopopolo · x · 2026-11-15
Hyrum Popocolo frames the ticket debate: "To build via ticket is to care about mechanism. To build via big objective is to only care about outcomes. Successful, high ambition agentic systems only build for and evaluate for outcomes."
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