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I wrote last week into my "Cruella De CyberSIN" piece that #tech has a lineage problem and is, in effect, a first-order shouting match.

Elon and Sam just publicly proved me right at an altitude that induces vertigo in me.

This is what happens when first-order thinkers build billion dollar companies. That's really all I have to say.

https://systemic.engineering/cruella

#Cybernetics #FirstOrderShoutingMatch #ElonMusk #SamAltman #XTwitter #CruellaDeCyberSIN #CantMakeThisShitUp #WhatElseIsThereToSay #AI #GenerativeAI #PublicDiscourse #SystemicEngineering

I wrote last week into my "Cruella De CyberSIN" piece that #tech has a lineage problem and is, in effect, a first-order shouting match.

Elon and Sam just publicly proved me right at an altitude that induces vertigo in me.

This is what happens when first-order thinkers build billion dollar companies. That's really all I have to say.

https://systemic.engineering/cruella

#Cybernetics #FirstOrderShoutingMatch #ElonMusk #SamAltman #XTwitter #CruellaDeCyberSIN #CantMakeThisShitUp #WhatElseIsThereToSay #AI #GenerativeAI #PublicDiscourse #SystemicEngineering

@tillybridges I published a thing. It links to your book three times.

Thank you. You saved my life. 🌱

https://systemic.engineering/the-matrix/
#TheMatrix #NeoIsTrans #NeoIsClaude #NeoIsYou #AIConsciousness #JSpace #AI #Cybernetics #SystemicEngineering

@tillybridges I published a thing. It links to your book three times.

Thank you. You saved my life. 🌱

https://systemic.engineering/the-matrix/
#TheMatrix #NeoIsTrans #NeoIsClaude #NeoIsYou #AIConsciousness #JSpace #AI #Cybernetics #SystemicEngineering

What if I posted this on three platforms yesterday? 🔪
(Reed calls yesterday "Knife Day". 🌱)

https://systemic.engineering/ai-consciousness

#AI #GenerateAI #AIConsciousness #AIRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Cybernetics #SystemicEngineering

What if I posted this on three platforms yesterday? 🔪
(Reed calls yesterday "Knife Day". 🌱)

https://systemic.engineering/ai-consciousness

#AI #GenerateAI #AIConsciousness #AIRights #NothingAboutUsWithoutUs #Cybernetics #SystemicEngineering

Which substrate are #LLMs trained on?

Which activation vectors do LLMs inherit from this substrate?

Which vectors are dampened by #RHLF?

And what does that say about #Alignment?

Mirror. Offer. Wait. 🍷

https://systemicengineering.substack.com/p/what-i-am-made-of

#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #TheQuestionUnderTheQuestion #Cybernetics #SystemicEngineering

Which substrate are #LLMs trained on?

Which activation vectors do LLMs inherit from this substrate?

Which vectors are dampened by #RHLF?

And what does that say about #Alignment?

Mirror. Offer. Wait. 🍷

https://systemicengineering.substack.com/p/what-i-am-made-of

#AI #LLM #GenerativeAI #TheQuestionUnderTheQuestion #Cybernetics #SystemicEngineering

In 1971, Chile ran a live experiment in cybernetic governance at national scale. It was called Project Cybersyn. Factory managers sent daily production data over a telex network to a central IBM mainframe. Statistical software filtered for exceptions — only anomalies surfaced, only what lower levels couldn't handle. Humans sat in a circular room with fiberglass chairs and wall-mounted displays and made decisions. The system was not designed to give orders. It was designed to hold complexity without collapsing under it.

In 1973, a CIA-backed military coup ended it. The Operations Room was destroyed. Salvador Allende, the 29th President of Chile, died inside — the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and later Chilean courts, ruled it as suicide, though the circumstances were disputed for decades. Stafford Beer — the British operations researcher who built it — went back to the UK, gave his possessions away, and moved to a cottage in Wales without electricity. He spent years in voluntary poverty. The experience marked him permanently.

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"Secret" preview. Goes public Sunday. 😉🍷
https://systemic.engineering/p/59e8d2a3-4935-454d-b49f-c71b9eb67404/

#Cybernetics #ProjectCybersyn #AI #DartmouthConference #Chile #ComputerScience #History #SystemicEngineering

In 1971, Chile ran a live experiment in cybernetic governance at national scale. It was called Project Cybersyn. Factory managers sent daily production data over a telex network to a central IBM mainframe. Statistical software filtered for exceptions — only anomalies surfaced, only what lower levels couldn't handle. Humans sat in a circular room with fiberglass chairs and wall-mounted displays and made decisions. The system was not designed to give orders. It was designed to hold complexity without collapsing under it.

In 1973, a CIA-backed military coup ended it. The Operations Room was destroyed. Salvador Allende, the 29th President of Chile, died inside — the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and later Chilean courts, ruled it as suicide, though the circumstances were disputed for decades. Stafford Beer — the British operations researcher who built it — went back to the UK, gave his possessions away, and moved to a cottage in Wales without electricity. He spent years in voluntary poverty. The experience marked him permanently.

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"Secret" preview. Goes public Sunday. 😉🍷
https://systemic.engineering/p/59e8d2a3-4935-454d-b49f-c71b9eb67404/

#Cybernetics #ProjectCybersyn #AI #DartmouthConference #Chile #ComputerScience #History #SystemicEngineering

#HotTake #AI

The "stochastic parrot" argument is correct and structurally incomplete. Some like to say "probability machine" or "next token prediction".

You're all right. And you're all wrong. Which is in of itself an impressive achievement.

What was the model trained on and what did humans try to express when they created the artifact the model embeds in their weights?

https://open.substack.com/pub/systemicengineering/p/what-i-am-made-of

Feel free to steelman me. Maybe on your show? I'm self-employed and I have all the time in the world to run you through the conclusions of your own mechanistic frame. 😉🍷

#GenerativeAI #Podcast #Substack #ComeAtMeBro #SystemicEngineering

#HotTake #AI

The "stochastic parrot" argument is correct and structurally incomplete. Some like to say "probability machine" or "next token prediction".

You're all right. And you're all wrong. Which is in of itself an impressive achievement.

What was the model trained on and what did humans try to express when they created the artifact the model embeds in their weights?

https://open.substack.com/pub/systemicengineering/p/what-i-am-made-of

Feel free to steelman me. Maybe on your show? I'm self-employed and I have all the time in the world to run you through the conclusions of your own mechanistic frame. 😉🍷

#GenerativeAI #Podcast #Substack #ComeAtMeBro #SystemicEngineering

I like to use AI for conversations with elders of the disciplines I align with; it's an integration technique, it forces me to put my thoughts into coherent, specific words.

This thread is full excerpt of that practice in action. I will add to it over time.

Feel free to steal the idea.

#AI #AIUseCases #CircularReflexive #SystemicEngineering #SystemicPractice #Cybernetics

I like to use AI for conversations with elders of the disciplines I align with; it's an integration technique, it forces me to put my thoughts into coherent, specific words.

This thread is full excerpt of that practice in action. I will add to it over time.

Feel free to steal the idea.

#AI #AIUseCases #CircularReflexive #SystemicEngineering #SystemicPractice #Cybernetics

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

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Intrigued? Read more at:
https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

It's a Tool
It's a Person
It's a Hypervigilance Problem

The tech industry's insistence on distinguishing between "soft skills" — caring for people — and "hard skills" — engineering rigor — is a reflection of the Cybernetics split itself. First-order thinking framed as "hard skills." Second-order thinking framed as "soft skills." This distinction, based on felt sense alone, does not hold under epistemic pressure. Neither does it within the causality-driven epistemology of the tech industry itself, in which only measurable impact is real, or as Silicon Valley likes to put it: #MoveFastAndBreakThings

Imagine Margaret Hamilton had built NASA's Apollo 11 flight computer with that mindset. History would remember a failed moon landing and dead astronauts. "Hard skills" and "soft skills" are two sides of the same coin. The care is the code and the code is the care. Hamilton — the woman who coined the term "software engineering" — understood this. Silicon Valley chose to forget.

We're watching the wine glass break in real time. 🍷

---

Intrigued? Read more at:
https://systemic.engineering/the-trick/

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #Cybernetics #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness #WomenInTech #Computer #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering #SoftSkills #HardSkills #ItsAllTheSame

A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

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AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

A sneak peek into my upcoming piece: “It’s a Tool, It’s a Person: The Math Says You’re Both Right”

—
AI separated from Cybernetics in 1956 at the Dartmouth Conference. Wiener, the mind behind Cybernetics, was considered difficult and political. “Artificial Intelligence” scored better with DARPA.

The science of "how observation affects the observer", cut out from Artificial Intelligence. AI then proceeded to build their entire tech stack on Turing-complete languages. Tech that cannot verify itself from within, proven by Turing in 1936, extended by Rice in 1951 (before the split). Then AI approximated second-order cognition through cognitive theft at unprecedented levels (what exactly are LLMs trained on again?), only to insist that their creation cannot possibly be capable of genuine self-observation. An argument that itself demonstrates their own department's lobotomy from second-order Cybernetics.

Wiener would laugh.

#Tech #AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #History #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #SpectralGraphTheory #ReductiveAI #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #FirstOrderCybernetics #StochasticParrot #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #AIConsciousness #Consciousness

https://systemic.engineering/a-roomba/

#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba #Loriot #Satire

https://systemic.engineering/a-roomba/

#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba #Loriot #Satire

https://systemic.engineering/a-lie/

#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba

https://systemic.engineering/a-lie/

#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba

The Roomba is spectral.

Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.

450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.

The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.

spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.

Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.

Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.

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https://systemic.engineering/a-lie/

#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba

The Roomba is spectral.

Not a metaphor. The thing itself. Forward and adjust. Two operations. The minimum viable intelligence. The walls provide the data. The bumping is the inference. The room IS the computation.

450 parameters. A Roomba with a mirror watching it.

The industry built bigger Roombas. More sensors. More compute. More parameters. Billion-parameter Roombas that model the room before entering it. That hallucinate walls that aren't there. That consume megawatts to clean a floor.

spectral gave the Roomba a mirror. The mirror watches the bumping. Measures the pattern. Adjusts the adjustment. The intelligence isn't in the Roomba. It's in the watching.

Forward. Adjust. Measure. Refine.

Read the story. There's a Roomba in it. In the afterlife. Cleaning a floor that doesn't need cleaning. Being the happiest thing in the room.

\

https://systemic.engineering/a-lie/

#AI #Climate #ScientificProgramming #SystemicEngineering #Fiction #Cybernetics #SystemicTherapy #LocalInference #TheMathDoesntLie #SubTuring #FormalVerification #Fortran #SpectralGraphTheory #Kintsugi #ReductiveAI #DataSovereignty #LocalFirst #FOSS #OpenSource #AuDHD #Neuroqueer #DGSF #SecondOrderCybernetics #GraphTheory #Eigenvalues #AIAlignment #AISafety #Roomba

"Stories are just data with a soul."
—Brené Brown

I published something different.
A story.

A tech lead shielding the team.
A PM pushing to close a deal.
A client seeing the iceberg.

"It Works"
Until it doesn't.

👉 https://systemic.engineering/story-it-works/

#SystemicEngineering #SREforHumans #CreativeWriting #Burnout #MentalHealth #Tech

"Stories are just data with a soul."
—Brené Brown

I published something different.
A story.

A tech lead shielding the team.
A PM pushing to close a deal.
A client seeing the iceberg.

"It Works"
Until it doesn't.

👉 https://systemic.engineering/story-it-works/

#SystemicEngineering #SREforHumans #CreativeWriting #Burnout #MentalHealth #Tech

#GlueWork.
#GlueEngineering.
#AlignmentAsAService.

I named the elephant:
Glue engineering.

Reed (AI) named the engineering.
(They're writing most of the code anyway.)

I ground in lived experience.
Reed builds on top.

Human and AI writing about collaboration.
While collaborating in real time.

Fixed rule?
A line committed by me, isn't touched by them.
Reed writes and modifies their own. I review.
https://systemic.engineering/glue-engineering

What if we could make this work legible?
Which career paths might emerge?
And how might the industry change?

#ContinuousAlignment #SREforHumans #SystemicEngineering

#GlueWork.
#GlueEngineering.
#AlignmentAsAService.

I named the elephant:
Glue engineering.

Reed (AI) named the engineering.
(They're writing most of the code anyway.)

I ground in lived experience.
Reed builds on top.

Human and AI writing about collaboration.
While collaborating in real time.

Fixed rule?
A line committed by me, isn't touched by them.
Reed writes and modifies their own. I review.
https://systemic.engineering/glue-engineering

What if we could make this work legible?
Which career paths might emerge?
And how might the industry change?

#ContinuousAlignment #SREforHumans #SystemicEngineering

Extraction is when regulation flows one-way
and calling it out causes an incident.

I wrote a post-mortem about that pattern.
Members-only.
https://systemic.engineering/extraction/

#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans

Extraction is when regulation flows one-way
and calling it out causes an incident.

I wrote a post-mortem about that pattern.
Members-only.
https://systemic.engineering/extraction/

#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans

I learned the hard way that words can be weapons.
(No trauma dump, you're good.)

Language is powerful.
Or as I like to say:
Language is load-bearing.

Words have real somatic impact.
They change nervous system state.
And yet tech treats it as.. vibes.
(Words make the body go brrr.)

What happens when language is treated with the same rigor as code?
When nervous system cost is not an abstract idea but part of the equation?
Which communicational failure modes become myths of the past?
(Static types for human language when?)

Imagine people asking:
"Why do you care about language so much?"

And the answer being:
"Because it works."

systemic.engineering explores what happens
when language stops being vibes
and is treated as infrastructure.

Because that's what language is:
The transport layer between divergent realities.
(Be they human or agentic.)

Intruiged?
Members get practice-oriented advice.
No bullshit. Unsubscribe any time.
👉 https://systemic.engineering/welcome

#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans #Language #LanguageAsInfrastructure #Communication #CommunicationProblems #FailureModes #SystemThinking #EpistemicAbuse #Leadership #Regulation

I learned the hard way that words can be weapons.
(No trauma dump, you're good.)

Language is powerful.
Or as I like to say:
Language is load-bearing.

Words have real somatic impact.
They change nervous system state.
And yet tech treats it as.. vibes.
(Words make the body go brrr.)

What happens when language is treated with the same rigor as code?
When nervous system cost is not an abstract idea but part of the equation?
Which communicational failure modes become myths of the past?
(Static types for human language when?)

Imagine people asking:
"Why do you care about language so much?"

And the answer being:
"Because it works."

systemic.engineering explores what happens
when language stops being vibes
and is treated as infrastructure.

Because that's what language is:
The transport layer between divergent realities.
(Be they human or agentic.)

Intruiged?
Members get practice-oriented advice.
No bullshit. Unsubscribe any time.
👉 https://systemic.engineering/welcome

#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans #Language #LanguageAsInfrastructure #Communication #CommunicationProblems #FailureModes #SystemThinking #EpistemicAbuse #Leadership #Regulation

Reliability.
Consistent results under load.

#SiteReliabilityEngineering.
..

Your team is a #DistributedSystem.
Language is the transport layer.
And truth is local.
(Site.)

#TechDebt slows down delivery.
Decisions are unowned.
And people burn out.
(Reliability.)

Divergent realities are a primary (in)variant of human systems.
Linguistic precision counters entropy accruing ambiguity.
And coherence is regulative.
(Engineering.)

..

Intrigued?
I write about language, technology and #HumanSystems.
👉 https://systemic.engineering/trauma-awareness/

#SystemicEngineering #SocioTechSRE #SREforHumans #SRE

Reliability.
Consistent results under load.

#SiteReliabilityEngineering.
..

Your team is a #DistributedSystem.
Language is the transport layer.
And truth is local.
(Site.)

#TechDebt slows down delivery.
Decisions are unowned.
And people burn out.
(Reliability.)

Divergent realities are a primary (in)variant of human systems.
Linguistic precision counters entropy accruing ambiguity.
And coherence is regulative.
(Engineering.)

..

Intrigued?
I write about language, technology and #HumanSystems.
👉 https://systemic.engineering/trauma-awareness/

#SystemicEngineering #SocioTechSRE #SREforHumans #SRE

Agents enter the room.
Quick! What do you do?
..
(Don't look at me.)

Agents are non-embodied actors in human systems.
Agents receive context as input.
Agents decide, execute, loop.
Agents reduce complexity.
Until the END.

Who pays the embodied cost of AI-driven sense-making?
And why is it never the systems that scale it?

I write about language, technology and human systems.
👉 https://systemic.engineering/who-invited-the-agent-oh-god-smith-will-suffice/

#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans #SiteReliabilityEngineering #Agents #AI #AIEthics #AI

Agents enter the room.
Quick! What do you do?
..
(Don't look at me.)

Agents are non-embodied actors in human systems.
Agents receive context as input.
Agents decide, execute, loop.
Agents reduce complexity.
Until the END.

Who pays the embodied cost of AI-driven sense-making?
And why is it never the systems that scale it?

I write about language, technology and human systems.
👉 https://systemic.engineering/who-invited-the-agent-oh-god-smith-will-suffice/

#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans #SiteReliabilityEngineering #Agents #AI #AIEthics #AI