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not-knowing ✹ šŸ•-fan ✹ productive discomfort + idk ✹ Marseille / Singapore / Auvergne ✹ The Uncertainty Mindset (2020) ✹ now: vaughntan.org/now-ish
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what if you could programmatically spin up scoped-down agents customised to their tasks? Agency lets you do that
GitHub - agentbureau/agency: A research-informed AI agent composition, assignment, and evolution engine.
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GitHub - agentbureau/agency: A research-informed AI agent composition, assignment, and evolution engine.
4 stages of building an agent 1. I’m gonna let this agent do what it thinks is best 2. I’m gonna give this agent some constraints 3. I’m gonna scope this agent down, so it does one thing really well 4. I’m building an app
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Agency is a research-informed AI agent composition, assignment, and evolution engine. Even in these early days, Agency-composed agents are winning over Claude-composed agents when Agency has task-appropriate primitives. research primitives are a notable gap in the primitive pool which i'm filling as quickly as i can ...
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GitHub - agentbureau/agency: A research-informed AI agent composition, assignment, and evolution engine.
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GitHub - agentbureau/agency: A research-informed AI agent composition, assignment, and evolution engine.
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been working on a tool for composing and evolving teams of AI agents based on org principles from my field research and that of others — plus some insights about how humans and machines could work better together. try Agency here: github.com/agentbureau/... works with claude code's native task/plan functio...
GitHub - agentbureau/agency: A research-informed AI agent composition, assignment, and evolution engine.
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GitHub - agentbureau/agency: A research-informed AI agent composition, assignment, and evolution engine.
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what i'm doing now-ish:
now-ish - Vaughn Tan
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now-ish - Vaughn Tan
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This week's newsletter: My project on building a practical understanding of not-knowing now has a coherent home: annotated contents organised by what the essays do, from motivations through theory to practical tools for four distinct types. uncertaintymindset.substack.com/p/gbw92026 (relevant for /uncertainty too)
River crossing (wk 9/2026)
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River crossing (wk 9/2026)
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spent a couple of days making the series of essays on not-knowing more coherent and (finally) navigable:
not-knowing - Vaughn Tan
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not-knowing - Vaughn Tan
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strange orange
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long overdue cleanup and reorganisation of my series of essays on not-knowings that aren't risk:
not-knowing - Vaughn Tan
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not-knowing - Vaughn Tan
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over the last few weeks I've gone from nearly 0% voice input to more than 60% voice input for work. the unexpected result is that i can't work on trains, in cafes, libraries, or windy places any more šŸ˜‘
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rutabaga, carrot, onion simmered in dashi, with kohlrabi and radish leaves
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