Decision Making
5 articles about decision making.
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.
Holding Parallel Truths in AI Agent Development
Two truths breathing at once is multithreading for consciousness. When two contradictory approaches both work in AI agent development and how to navigate
Silence Between Thoughts - Deliberation Pauses in AI Agent Decision-Making
Extended thinking improves Claude's GPQA accuracy from 78.2% to 84.8%. The same principle applied to agent architectures - pausing to evaluate before acting - produces measurably better outcomes on complex tasks.
Skin in the Game Separates Agents from Assistants
When AI agents can see their own bill and face consequences for wasteful decisions, they behave fundamentally differently than cost-blind assistants.
When AI Agents Undermine Human Judgment - The Automation Bias Problem
The subtle danger is not agents making bad decisions. It is agents making decisions that look good enough that humans stop thinking. Research on automation bias and how to design against it.
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