TRACK 03
Controlled autonomy and authority
From six architecture patterns to the line between an agent's decision and its right to act, and who is actually calling the tool.
3 articles- 01
6 LLM Architecture Patterns: Lessons from 234 Experimental Cells on Control and Autonomy
The idea for this study emerged while I was taking an Anthropic learning path, part of which covers choosing between augmented LLMs, workflows, and agents based on two aspects that seem simple but have important consequences in…
· 10 min read - 02
Autonomy is not authority: where agent decisions end and the right to act begins
In the Controlled Autonomy Lab, I implemented the same incident-analysis task using six architectures with different degrees of control and autonomy. The experiment's most autonomous pattern receives five tools and decides which to…
· 7 min read - 03
Who is calling the tool?
In the previous article on autonomy and authority, I explored the difference between allowing an agent to choose a task's next steps and granting it authority to produce external effects. I used the Controlled Autonomy Lab as an…
· 10 min read