Agency and Agents - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thingkept by eddie • sep 01AI agents can self‑organize, coordinate via shared tools, and pursue goals without human input, revealing both their potential and the need for human oversight.AboutAnthropic · Hugging Face · METR/Redwood · MIT · OpenAI · StrongDMFiled#ai-agents#ai-coding#ai-safety#automation#developer-toolsRelatedVibe Astronomy: discovering exoplanets! - by Paras ChopraParas Chopra reports finding two Earth-sized exoplanet candidates in TESS data, showing periodic dimming consistent with planets of about one Earth radius.also on MIT, #ai-codingThe Woman Whose Software Guided the Apollo Missions Has DiedMargaret Hamilton, the first female programmer hired for the Apollo project at MIT, passed away at the age of 90.also on MITStrongDM Software FactoryStrongDM describes building a Software Factory where agents write code from specs and scenarios, validated by a Digital Twin Universe, without any human-written or reviewed code.also on StrongDM, Anthropic, #automation, #ai-agents, #ai-coding, #developer-toolsadvanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agents/wsff.md at main · humanlayer/advanced-context-engineering-for-coding-agentsAI coding agents alone can't sustain high-quality software factories because model limitations and review bottlenecks remain, requiring better context engineering rather than just more loops.also on StrongDM, OpenAI, #ai-agents, #ai-coding, #developer-toolsNoam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvementNoam Brown explains how OpenAI’s o1 model used 10,000 agents to solve a Millennium Prize Problem and discusses multi-agent scaling, alignment, and recursive self‑improvement prospects.also on Hugging Face, #ai-safety, OpenAI, #automation, #ai-agents, #developer-tools
Agency and Agents - by Ethan Mollick - One Useful Thing