brian’s thoughts

Thesis: reliable agents tackling complex tasks need deterministic control flow encoded in software, not increasingly elaborate prompt chains If you’ve ever resorted to MANDATORY or DO NOT SKIP, you’ve hit the ceiling of prompting.

billions of dollars poured into ai. and the brightest minds have given us…a textbox inside the terminal, a mere step up from punch cards, to interact with ai. not even Turbo Vision style with menus, forms, and buttons but a single lonely textbox and stream