adlrocha - Stop Micromanaging your agents

Last week I wrote about the shift from writing code to running the kitchen. The argument was that engineering is moving away from individual code production and toward orchestrating systems of agents by designing the harness, the handoffs, and the specs.But I left a question unanswered. If you’re running the kitchen, how close do you actually stay to the stove? When should you chime in to steer the agent, verify its work, or check-in progress?That’s what I want to explore with you in this.Three main relationshipsThe question of how humans and agents work together has been discussed under a few different names in the literature. Usually I’ve seen them referred to as Human-in-the-Loop (HITL), Human-on-the-Loop (HOTL), and fully autonomous systems. The academic framing is fine, but I feel like it may be missing the point a bit. The terminology is about position, i.e. where are you standing relative to the machine. What I think actually matters is the actual relationship you have with it,…