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The agent principal-agent problem

crawshaw.io
1 points·by brimtown·vor 2 Monaten·0 comments

We Will Not Be Divided

notdivided.org
12 points·by brimtown·vor 4 Monaten·1 comments

Pup – Datadog CLI

github.com
4 points·by brimtown·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

Synthetic Pretraining

vintagedata.org
3 points·by brimtown·vor 5 Monaten·0 comments

Train On Your Groupchat: LoRA and in-browser inference to fine-tune your friends

brimtown.com
1 points·by brimtown·vor 8 Monaten·0 comments

Cat Shoggoth

hgreer.com
3 points·by brimtown·vor 10 Monaten·0 comments

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brimtown
·vor 9 Tagen·discuss
The best writing on this is the "agent principal-agent" problem, which correctly frames the problem of agents and code review in terms of trust.

This is why the solutions for high-trust environments (small teams) and low-trust environments (big companies, open source projects) will be different.

https://crawshaw.io/blog/agent-principal-agent
brimtown
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
This is wonderful. Consider decoupling the core from Emacs, or packaging in a way that doesn’t require it as heavily.

I’ve been doing my own exploration of terminal ASCII games via Dwarf Fortress instead of SimCity. I’ve learned that letting a coding agent play is an interesting way to get feedback as well :)

https://github.com/brimtown/claude-fortress
brimtown
·vor 5 Monaten·discuss
“standardize the intersection, expose the union” is a great phrase I hadn’t heard articulated before
brimtown
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
I’m currently letting Claude build and play its own Dwarf Fortress clone, as an installable plugin in Claude Code

https://github.com/brimtown/claude-fortress
brimtown
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
There is a PermissionRequest hook [1], along with Notification

https://code.claude.com/docs/en/hooks-guide#hook-events-over...

It must be newer because Opus never seems to know about it, and the claude-code-guide tool that fires occasionally misses it
brimtown
·vor 6 Monaten·discuss
This is @simonw’s Lethal Trifecta [1] again - access to private data and untrusted input are arguably the purpose of enterprise agents, so any external communication is unsafe. Markdown images are just the ones people usually forget about

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
brimtown
·vor 8 Monaten·discuss
I have a soft spot for these JS fuzzy matchers, but there are so many that it’s worth talking about about the specific tradeoffs you chose / ideally offering an interactive comparison like μFuzzy does:

https://github.com/leeoniya/uFuzzy
brimtown
·vor 9 Monaten·discuss
Had hoped to see Neural Cellular Automata [1] mentioned as an extension of continuous, learnable automata.

[1] https://distill.pub/2020/growing-ca/