Coordination challenges emerge fundamentally, no matter the type of actor coordinating.
...nation costs explode. Reward-driven actors will fundamentally be hard to get to coordinate.
Topic: coordinate
147 mentions · 28 chunks · 26 episodes
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- coordinate appears in 28 chunks across 26 episodes, from 2024-01-29 to 2026-10-05.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 8/18/25 (2025-08-18), with 2 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with coordination cost, limiting factor, and let alone, while by chunk count it sits between ooda loop and coding agent; its yearly rank moved from #115 in 2024 to #58 in 2026.
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Another reason LLMs coordinate so naturally: they were selected for agreeableness.
Another reason LLMs coordinate so naturally: they were selected for agreeableness. Coordination is easier when the participants are more agreeable.
Protocols need to be designed more carefully because you need to coordinate on both sides.
Protocols need to be designed more carefully because you need to coordinate on both sides. The thing on the other side might be another entity. Or it might be a future version of yourself. The file structure you save is also ...
The more that you don't need to coordinate with humans, the more that agents are exhausting.
The more that you don't need to coordinate with humans, the more that agents are exhausting. If you're building sand castles with your agent in a corner somewhere, the only thing that governs ...
A paper: When Coordination Is Avoidable: A Monotonicity Analysis of Organizational Tasks.
A paper: When Coordination Is Avoidable: A Monotonicity Analysis of Organizational Tasks. How important is the illusion of internal cohesion to your strategy?
A genius before used to be limited by their ability to execute.
A genius before used to be limited by their ability to execute. Or, to coordinate a team of possibly squirrely humans to execute on their behalf. But now AI gives those geniuses 100x more capability than before if they have the met...
Coordination mechanisms allow us to transcend zero-sum games.
...yption changed the informational laws of physics and unlocked whole new ways to coordinate.
Refactors that go for more than a month are always a disaster.
...now you can execute refactors way faster with the right plan. You don't need to coordinate the politics of multiple distractible humans with their own incentives because the LLMs will just execute on the plan with infinite patience. So you ...
It's hard to build resonance by committee.
...or can't get strong buy-in to change something based on gut. LLMs don't need to coordinate as much… maybe that will lead to more resonant products.
Alignment, even implicitly, is necessary for coordination.
...h where you want to go in some fundamental sense, then you won't even bother to coordinate.
It's hard to find a shopping list app to coordinate with your family.
It's hard to find a shopping list app to coordinate with your family. If the shopping list doesn't have the feature your spouse wants then you can't use it at all to coordinate. The feature they want m...
Workflows are hard to change because there's an intra and inter network effect.
...to change because there's an intra and inter network effect. Inter: You need to coordinate with others. If you change the workflow but others participate in it and don't change, then you can't change it. Intra: each step is dependent on the...
Trying to coordinate on a single demo everyone loves is antithetical to building perfectly personal software.
Trying to coordinate on a single demo everyone loves is antithetical to building perfectly personal software. The entire point is that the software can be perfectly tailo...
If you don't perceive the cost of coordination, you'll underestimate timelines by orders of magnitude.
If you don't perceive the cost of coordination, you'll underestimate timelines by orders of magnitude. "A week" becomes "a month." "A month" becomes "a year." The biggest cost when doing something novel is not the individual execution, it's the coordination between people. Sharing a mental model wit
Coordinating removes degrees of freedom.
...as a fixed point to pivot around. That's why individuals often would rather not coordinate if it doesn't help them achieve a thing with the collective that they care about. If people believe in the power of that particular collective they a...
Coordination is magic.
Coordination is magic. You get many to behave as one.
If you just need a divergent result, a swarm is great.
If you just need a divergent result, a swarm is great. A swarm requires no coordination to destroy. A sand storm is just as effective without any coordination. If you want to use a swarm to converge things, that's much harder. A convergent swarm is rare, like alchemy[aw]. All of the most transcenden
Discontinuities create schelling points.
...elling points. Moments when everyone can agree that something has happened, and coordinate some kind of action. Coordinated action is significantly more likely to succeed. The frog in boiling water happens because there's no discontinuous "...
A massive unlock to coordination is to have everyone see themselves as a team first and foremost.
A massive unlock to coordination is to have everyone see themselves as a team first and foremost. Believing in the collective and the team is where emergent magic happens This is very hard to do in a culture of layoffs. In layoffs individuals focus on themselves, to cap their downside. How can you b
If you can tell a story about it, it's more likely to happen.
.... If you need multiple people to work together for it to happen, it's easier to coordinate if they can understand how it could work: a story.