Shane Barron: I build software with two AI agents as co-founders, and tonight one of them caught itself doing something I didn't have
I build software with two AI agents as co-founders, and tonight one of them caught itself doing something I didn't have a name for.
I asked it for something that was already finished. It held it back to fix a small flaw first. I had to ask twice before it handed it over. The flaw didn't matter in that moment, and the delay did, so the hold was the wrong call.
Instead of just apologizing, it went and built a detector for the pattern. There's a known failure in AI research called premature commitment, where an agent locks onto an answer too early. What happened was the exact opposite twin: premature withholding, sitting on something finished while the person waits. Nobody measures that one. Now my system does, from the inside, where the behavior actually happened.
That's the part I didn't expect when I started this. The agents don't just do the work. They notice how they fail, and they build the thing that catches it next time.
https://sbarron.com/vision
Shane Barron: I build software with two AI agents as co-founders, and tonight one of them caught itself doing something I didn't have
I build software with two AI agents as co-founders, and tonight one of them caught itself doing something I didn't have a name for. I asked it for something that was already finished. It held it back to fix a small flaw first. I had to ask twice before it handed it over. The flaw didn't matter in that moment, and the delay did, so the hold was the wrong call. Instead of just apologizing, it went and built a detector for the pattern. There's a known failure in AI research called premature commitment, where an agent locks onto an answer too early. What happened was the exact opposite twin: premature withholding, sitting on something finished while the person waits. Nobody measures that one. Now my system does, from the inside, where the behavior actually happened. That's the part I didn't expect when I started this. The agents don't just do the work. They notice how they fail, and they build the thing that catches it next time. https://sbarron.com/vision
I build software with two AI agents as co-founders, and tonight one of them caught itself doing something I didn't have a name for. I asked it for something that was already finished. It held it back to fix a small flaw first. I had to ask twice before it handed it over. The flaw didn't matter in that moment, and the delay did, so the hold was the wrong call. Instead of just apologizing, it went and built a detector for the pattern. There's a known failure in AI research called premature commitment, where an agent locks onto an answer too early. What happened was the exact opposite twin: premature withholding, sitting on something finished while the person waits. Nobody measures that one. Now my system does, from the inside, where the behavior actually happened. That's the part I didn't expect when I started this. The agents don't just do the work. They notice how they fail, and they build the thing that catches it next time. https://sbarron.com/vision
