@lateinteraction: In AI, subtle differences in interfaces & affordances have disproportionate impact. "A message from a human [is] one mo…
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The article discusses the disproportionate impact of interfaces in AI and introduces Headlong, an open source microharness for persistent agents that think continuously.
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In AI, subtle differences in interfaces & affordances have disproportionate impact.
“A message from a human [is] one more observation that lands in the agent’s thought stream. [It] experiences everything that happens to it in one timeline [and] decides who to reply to and when.”
Andy Konwinski (@andykonwinski): Introducing Headlong, an open source microharness for persistent agents: self-guided agents that think continuously.
Most agent harnesses are reactive: you send a task, the agent completes it, and then it sits frozen until the next request. Cron jobs and heartbeats wake it up to
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