Every week someone asks why we only focus on gaming. The explore-exploit tradeoff explains why doing less is often the smartest bet, and why the math agrees.
I've been experimenting with different AI agent workflows for a while now, and I think I've landed on something that just works.
Few weeks ago I decided to let an AI agent handle my weekly grocery run. Full end-to-end. The dream.
Writing down the below felt very dystopian, as it's one of those things that makes me think, "Yeah, this could very well be the case in the future." If this shift happens, it raises more questions than it answers.
Remember that napkin or paper that was passed to you. Or maybe it was you who passed it. The one which was full of scrambles and sketches in such a small area, scribbles that would have made Da Vinci himself envy.
In 2015 when we were vacationing in Italy, I bought from this very random store something to read. As I'm more attracted to the book cover designs than the actual title, it turns out I left the shop with Malcom Gladwell's Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking.