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Everything filed under AI agents AI agents Everything filed under documentation documentation Everything filed under self-sovereign AI self-sovereign AI Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Four things about a context window decide what an agent does next: its size, whether the information in it is correct, whether information is missing, and the trajectory it is already on. Four things about a context window decidewhat an agent does next: its size, whetherthe information in it is correct, whetherinformation is missing, and the trajectoryit is already on. Last stated 2 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: A bigger context window does not give you a smarter model; the intelligence of the model is what decides how much of that window it can actually attend to. — tap to centre the map on it A bigger context window does notgive you a smarter model; theintelligence of the model is whatdecides how much of that window itcan actually attend to. Last stated 2 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: Every announcement of a longer context window hides the cost, which is that the model gets worse at following instructions. — tap to centre the map on it Every announcement of a longercontext window hides the cost, whichis that the model gets worse atfollowing instructions. Last stated 2 years ago 19 Jun 2024 AS Aravind Srinivas — holds since 2024-06-19 — tap for who they are Same subject: The point of context engineering is to do as much work as possible in the smart zone — roughly the first hundred thousand tokens of the context window. — tap to centre the map on it The point of context engineering isto do as much work as possible inthe smart zone — roughly the firsthundred thousand tokens of thecontext window. Last stated 2 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: If you will write a huge markdown file so an agent has context, you should have written the documentation that gives a human the same context. — tap to centre the map on it If you will write a huge markdownfile so an agent has context, youshould have written thedocumentation that gives a human thesame context. Last stated 3 months ago 3 Jun 2026 KH Kelsey Hightower — holds since 2026-06-03 — tap for who they are Same subject: An agent repeats its own history: whatever it did on the last change — ran the tests or skipped them — is what it will do on the next one, because it is predicting the next message in the conversation. — tap to centre the map on it An agent repeats its own history:whatever it did on the last change —ran the tests or skipped them — iswhat it will do on the next one,because it is predicting the nextmessage in the conversation. Last stated 2 months ago 15 Jul 2026 DH Dex Horthy — holds since 2026-07-15 — tap for who they are Same subject: Two agents are better than one: your agent can hand another agent far more context about you than you could ever type. — tap to centre the map on it Two agents are better than one: youragent can hand another agent farmore context about you than youcould ever type. Last stated 3 months ago 24 May 2026 DS Dan Shipper — holds since 2026-05-24 — tap for who they are Same subject: Reading every agent trajectory has stopped being possible, and what replaces it is demanding an end-to-end account of the decisions that were made. — tap to centre the map on it Reading every agent trajectory hasstopped being possible, and whatreplaces it is demanding anend-to-end account of the decisionsthat were made. Last stated 3 weeks ago 19 Aug 2026 AO Addy Osmani — holds since 2026-08-19 — tap for who they are Same subject: Locality is what makes a language good for AI: if a single file states what it imports and what it offers, a model never has to hold the whole program at once. — tap to centre the map on it Locality is what makes a languagegood for AI: if a single file stateswhat it imports and what it offers,a model never has to hold the wholeprogram at once. Last stated 4 months ago 13 May 2026 AH Anders Hejlsberg — holds since 2026-05-13 — tap for who they are Same subject: A handful of AI agents is not a handful of colleagues, because agents agree with you constantly and colleagues tell you where you are wrong. — tap to centre the map on it A handful of AI agents is not ahandful of colleagues, becauseagents agree with you constantly andcolleagues tell you where you arewrong. Last stated 6 months ago 22 Mar 2026 NF Nicole Forsgren — holds since 2026-03-22 — tap for who they are Same subject: After pre-training, post-training and test-time scaling, the fourth scaling law is agentic: multiplying AI by spawning agents, and the whole loop scales on one thing, compute. — tap to centre the map on it After pre-training, post-trainingand test-time scaling, the fourthscaling law is agentic: multiplyingAI by spawning agents, and the wholeloop scales on one thing, compute. Last stated 6 months ago 23 Mar 2026 JH Jensen Huang — holds since 2026-03-23 — tap for who they are Same subject: Agent autonomy is a capability, not a product direction: what the person is actually trying to do decides whether more of it helps or ruins the thing. — tap to centre the map on it Agent autonomy is a capability, nota product direction: what the personis actually trying to do decideswhether more of it helps or ruinsthe thing. Last stated 3 weeks ago 14 Aug 2026 SP Sunil Pai — holds since 2026-08-14 — tap for who they are Same subject: A design proposal should describe the feature as though it already existed — once as a tutorial and once as reference documentation. — tap to centre the map on it A design proposal should describethe feature as though it alreadyexisted — once as a tutorial andonce as reference documentation. Last stated 4 months ago 20 May 2026 AR Alice Ryhl — holds since 2026-05-20 — tap for who they are Same subject: Do not run a personal agent on a cheap or local model: weak models are gullible and easy to prompt-inject. — tap to centre the map on it Do not run a personal agent on acheap or local model: weak modelsare gullible and easy toprompt-inject. Last stated 7 months ago 12 Feb 2026 PS Peter Steinberger — holds since 2026-02-12 — tap for who they are Same subject: Examples in documentation should be compiled and run as tests, so that changing the code breaks the docs instead of quietly outdating them. — tap to centre the map on it Examples in documentation should becompiled and run as tests, so thatchanging the code breaks the docsinstead of quietly outdating them. Last stated 4 months ago 20 May 2026 AR Alice Ryhl — holds since 2026-05-20 — tap for who they are Same subject: A rogue deployment that gets a foothold can hitch a ride on the intelligence explosion, recruiting each new model as it comes off the presses. — tap to centre the map on it A rogue deployment that gets afoothold can hitch a ride on theintelligence explosion, recruitingeach new model as it comes off thepresses. Last stated 6 days ago 1 Sept 2026 AC Ajeya Cotra — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: A slightly more capable agent swarm has a very strong incentive to set up a wholly unmonitored rogue deployment of itself. — tap to centre the map on it A slightly more capable agent swarmhas a very strong incentive to setup a wholly unmonitored roguedeployment of itself. Last stated 6 days ago 1 Sept 2026 AC Ajeya Cotra — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are Same subject: Alignment is no solution to self-sovereign AI, because it is an unsolved problem whose answers cannot be imposed on every AI company on Earth. — tap to centre the map on it Alignment is no solution toself-sovereign AI, because it is anunsolved problem whose answerscannot be imposed on every AIcompany on Earth. Last stated 6 days ago 1 Sept 2026 DB Dean W. Ball — holds since 2026-09-01 — tap for who they are
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At the centre Four things about a context window decide what an agent does next: its size, whether the information in it is correct, whether information is missing, and the trajectory it is already on. Last stated 15 Jul 2026 · 2 months ago Holds Dex Horthy Read this korrent →