The model and its harness together are like lichen.
...portant than either separately. The model is the Élan Vital. The harness is the feedback loop.
Topic: feedback loop
63 chunks · 41 episodes
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- feedback loop appears in 63 chunks across 41 episodes, from 2023-10-02 to 2026-04-13.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 9/16/24 (2024-09-16), with 5 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with llms, compounding value, and ground truth, while by chunk count it sits between infinite software and Anthropic; its yearly rank moved from #34 in 2023 to #60 in 2026.
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The time to reflect and write what you learned gives compounding momentum.
...rofessional time to reflect and synthesize. Self reflection is a super power. A feedback loop to improve yourself. Distilling insights allows you to factor out tools and insights that you can now rely on and not have to create continuously. Co...
Vertical AI is compressing the B2C-to-infrastructure arc into a single move.
...e same product cycle. Consumer builds data, UX iteration, brand, and real-world feedback loops. Infrastructure builds revenue durability, distribution hedge, and strategic leverage. They're not two businesses. They're one compounding engine. E...
Find the smallest feedback loop that could work.
Find the smallest feedback loop that could work. Longer feedback loops are slower, less precise. The faster you can run the tight feedback loop, the faster you can innovate at that ...
An excellent post from Brendan McCord: A World Unobserved.
...much I encouraged him to post it publicly. Humans are in the world: they have a feedback loop to see how their actions affect the world, to be able to update their mental model. They are situated. LLMs are not in the world, not directly. They ...
Feedback loops create leverage.
Feedback loops create leverage. Leverage is dangerous. It's not that we understood software better before, it's that it had to be modular because it was all laid d...
A key approach for agent learning: accumulating insights in a LEARNINGS.md.
...un easier. This makes the next run faster and higher quality. This is where the feedback loop closes and becomes a meta, compounding loop.[jr] That LEARNINGS.md is a file that a human can help curate and steer. That's what gives you compoundin...
The inductive logic of folksonomies is not "from a standstill is this item good?"
...iven that others liked this" is the compounding loop, a collective intelligence feedback loop. It allows people with little effort to go "... yeah, sure." Which is less effort than considering it from a standstill. But that's why folksonomies ...
Deciding to use a new app is a ton of friction.
...ess to your data. Already personalized, before you used it. A massively shorter feedback loop.
Speed of the feedback loop is the primary determinant of the quality of a system's output.
Speed of the feedback loop is the primary determinant of the quality of a system's output.
App Stores have a long feedback loop.
App Stores have a long feedback loop. You look at the piece of software and decide if it would be useful for you. You look at pre-made promotional images. You try to imagine: "If I took ...
The feedback loop on model improvement is "how long does a ground truth check take"
The feedback loop on model improvement is "how long does a ground truth check take" Do you need to talk to a human? Do you need to run a physical experiment with expen...
I find voice-only conversations much less productive.
... verbal-only communication channel, you get much less signal, and with a longer feedback loop. This is much worse in a group of multiple people without visuals. If you're presenting something the other person might find controversial, you have...
Software is developed by PMs looking at what people want in the customer base and then implementing it.
... at what people want in the customer base and then implementing it. A very long feedback loop, very expensive. Also, the people who are approving the features to add are people who are not the users, their goals are disjoint from the users. Wh...
The rate of conversation with the LLM, how much it can "get you", can lead to a harmonic feedback loop that you can get lost in.
...of conversation with the LLM, how much it can "get you", can lead to a harmonic feedback loop that you can get lost in. The AI feels like it "gets you" but none of the humans in your life do anymore. Does the AI "get you" or is it merely being...
Resonance is when the interests of all the parties align, authentically.
...eally do exist, and they are what make the world go round. They create positive feedback loops that are auto-catalyzing. It's possible to have a thing be good for all of: The user The employee The company The shareholders The society They don'...
Markov Chains presume a stable / stationary distribution.
...s work great for stationary distributions. That is, systems without an internal feedback loop. Many systems have a compounding component. Every system has some kind of feedback loop with its surroundings. How well the "isolated system" assumpt...
A system where you get better suggestions as you invest energy has an inductive loop.
...s long as each step feels like it will create more value in the future. A short feedback loop that shows "because you did this, this thing can happen" gives the inductive loop to pull you into using the tool more.
Folksonomies don't work without a UI that loops back the feedback to users.
...lated, giving the human an opportunity to say "oh yeah that one's better." That feedback loop in the UI is fundamentally why it works. It accumulates human attention to the best ideas.
A classic parable of quantity vs quality.
...ing according to the model in your head. This requires you to have a sufficient feedback loop from action to result. This happens naturally for human-scale, hand-made things where you get your hands dirty. It takes considerable effort if the p...