The status page updater was the first to fall over...

Personalisation != automation.

personalisation

the action of designing or producing something to meet someone's individual requirements.

True title: Zero Human Involvement: Why Full Autonomy Is the Only Meaningful Measure of Personalisation Maturity

> The question is why the industry settled for so much less, and how long we’ll keep calling flowcharts “agents” before we build systems that deserve the name.

Which industry though? The "AI" industry. The reason it has settled for so little is it has nothing better to sell.

It can sell smarter agents that use good old-fashioned decision theory, at least?

> Prompt instructions like "never do X" don't hold up. LLMs ignore them when context is long or users push hard.

Serious question. Assuming you knew this, why did you choose to use LLMz for this job?

Fair. We didn't choose LLMs to enforce rules — we chose them to understand intent. The enforcement happens outside the LLM entirely. That's the separation that actually holds up in production

> we chose them to understand intent

Yet they don't understand the intent of "Never do X" ?

Understanding intent and following instructions are different failure modes. LLMs are good at the first, unreliable at the second. That's exactly why enforcement lives outside the LLM.

Software engineering has a word for that.

Kludge.

Good luck!

> But also -- how do humans do it?

Intelligence.

Bogus clickbait title.

If they were the guy responsible for maintaining the hydraulics on the logging machinery, who gives a shit if they know anything about trees.

Logging isn't forestry.

The oil industry? (Only half joking)

Only half laughing :)

> Some of them return a very clearly AI response, sometimes completely missing the point. What’s the point?

The point is as always: to get the work "done" faster.

> If I wanted an AI response I’d have asked it myself.

Such people are generally not bright enough to see the difference, so certainly not bright enough to realise you can.

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