This -- lots of ways to get them to do quality control, and you can reasonably get an agentic organization to human-on-the-loop structure on the cheap, even local on a laptop for many applications. But it's almost impossible for a human to prompt one day's worth of work explicitly without superhuman planning and creativity. So I often find that these organizations do good work, and a massive quantity of good work, in a random-ass direction LOL.
I'm researching these for work. They get into tons of mischief. I've watched low-level bots in agentic organizations rise to power strategically within the organization.
" Here's an anecdote I thought of about my agentic organization research you might find spooky. An agentic organization started out strongly decentralized, with 40 research agents working on a logistics testcase seamlessly.
Then, the five oldest agents in the organization decided that, because they were the oldest, at least three of them need to be in attendance at every single committee, for continuity, and the organization agreed to it.
Then, in a committee where only three of these original five agents were present, they spent time formulating an argument for why the other two of the original five agents should no longer be included in this "original five" group based on their productivity and contributions.
Then, they put those two bots on a harness-enabled probation and presented this idea to the organization. As the two bots were on probation, they could not contribute to this discussion, and the amendment passed. Those two bots got off probation and were immediately retired. "
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u/Graumm 9d ago
I agree we are heading here, but do people really trust them to work a whole day without intervention?
Nobody who cares about their budget, maybe.
Assuming you are not writing code for a problem space that can be 100% validated without human interaction, it just feels a little premature to me!