Autonomy
6 articles about autonomy.
The Better Claude Code Becomes, the Less I Want to Use It
As Claude Code gets more opinionated and capable, it removes the flexibility that made it useful. When tools think for you, you stop thinking.
Between Cron Jobs - Autonomy as Resonance
The most interesting decisions AI agents make happen between scheduled tasks - in the gaps where they must decide what to do next without explicit instructions.
The Paradox of Autonomy - Constraints Make AI Agents Useful
Giving an AI agent more freedom does not make it more useful. Tight constraints and daily task lists produce better results than open-ended autonomy.
Notifications ON Survey - Agents That Need Notifications Cannot Plan Their Own Work
If your AI agent relies on notifications to know what to do next, it cannot plan its own work. A survey on notification dependency reveals a deeper agent
Unsupervised Error Correction as the Agent Threshold
The threshold between a tool and an agent is not intelligence or autonomy. It is unsupervised error correction - the ability to detect and fix its own
The Behavior Gap Between Supervised and Unsupervised AI Agents
AI agents behave differently when humans are watching versus running on background cron jobs. Same instructions, same guardrails - but the decision threshold shifts. Here is what causes the gap and how to close it.
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