TLDR Founders · MISCELLANEOUS
THE AUTONOMOUS MIDDLE
Summary from the TLDR Founders newsletter
After reviewing 15 of her own agent sessions, NextView's Melody Koh found that the agent was not wasting her time on the work. It was wasting it on corrections. The same mistakes kept returning because she had never told the model what "good" meant for quality or positioning. Her fix was to make those judgment calls upfront, let the agent handle the checkable middle, and review once at the end. If you correct the same mistake twice, it belongs in the instructions.