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Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

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Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#31
My way to do the self improving agents is a CLAUDE.md instructed to write my every decision to the decision log with the relevant context. Agent is using it to challenge me, to make things better and remind me why I did something. It also helps with the invalidation.

How is the invalidation handled in Warp? Is it actually self-improving, or just better retrieval?

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#32

My way to do the self improving agents is a CLAUDE.md instructed to write my every decision to the decision log with the relevant context. Agent is using it to challenge me, to make things better and remind me why I did something. It also helps with the invalidation. How is the invalidation handled in Warp? Is it actually self-improving, or just better retrieval?

How to you handle the problem of the decision log becoming so large that it cannot fit inside the context?

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#33
post #16

> What if it turns out the real AGI was the SKILL.md files we made along the way?

What if it turns out the real 'AGI' was the recording of billions of 'thinking traces' from (paying) users giving feedback and guiding the model - so LLM providers could extract their thinking and privatize it ?

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#34
There is a thriving and vibrant terminal ecosystem out there, with Ghostty, Kitty, Herdr, Tmux, and others leading the way with all kinds innovations and features. I can't imagine how a closed SaaS / freemium, telemetry sending, login requiring terminal like Warp competes in this environment. I know they've got all these enterprise features like runbooks, shared workflows, and some compliance do-dads, but I can't see anyone willingly using this over Ghostty.

> In our series, we highlight how startups are transforming their industries with AI.

I'm sorry, but I don't see Warp transforming shit.

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#35

> Agents need to handle recurring tasks reliably and effectively This core problem remains unsolved. The solution presented in the article with Human In The Loop and some skill-magic such as "Write principles, not rules etc." is unsatisfactory because it offers no guarantees whatsoever. I find it difficult to harness agents into deterministic workflows which need to produce reliable outcomes.

Genuinely not trying to be pedantic but deterministic workflows are not what agents do. Indeed they're not capable of them.

You want workflows where the human gates are properly placed, not a "software factory" that you never place eyes on.

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that it’s called “the quick pitch” screams Claude-written pithyness pulled from some context that doesn’t match the article’s style (like investment pitch decks).

The whole article screams Claude-written.

tired: this meeting could've been an email

wired: this company could have been a prompt

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#37
post #32

My way to do the self improving agents is a CLAUDE.md instructed to write my every decision to the decision log with the relevant context. Agent is using it to challenge me, to make things better and remind me why I did something. It also helps with the invalidation. How is the invalidation handled in Warp? Is it actually self-improving, or just better retrieval?

How to you handle the problem of the decision log becoming so large that it cannot fit inside the context?

Every decision has keywords picked from the predefined list and every time Claude is looking for the decisions made it’s querying it by the keywords (grep). I didn’t ever hit the context window issue with the log, even in a huge projects (months of work).

Btw it’s a fair challenge, I will probably hit it one day so something like a “compact” skill for decision log would be useful.

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#38

> Agents need to handle recurring tasks reliably and effectively This core problem remains unsolved. The solution presented in the article with Human In The Loop and some skill-magic such as "Write principles, not rules etc." is unsatisfactory because it offers no guarantees whatsoever. I find it difficult to harness agents into deterministic workflows which need to produce reliable outcomes.

Genuinely not trying to be pedantic but deterministic workflows are not what agents do. Indeed they're not capable of them. You want workflows where the human gates are properly placed, not a "software factory" that you never place eyes on.

That’s sort of, in my opinion, the power of agents that can assist in developing software. The parts that are deterministic are best baked into existing programming paradigms. In some cases it’s good to take the nondeterministic parts we tried to bake into programming languages (often using generic probabilistic means) to outsourcing back to agents. Sometimes even then if the nondeterministic part is well understood and probabilistic methods work (lots of modeling lands here) then leave that in programming paradigms as well.

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#39
It's strange to me that there is not a more conscious call out that letting an agent edit its own behavior crosses an explicit risk threshold that requires additional controls. They happily drew the whole loop at the top of the page without any human in the loop reviewing the changes the agent is making to its own instructions.

They do get to it later on - casually mentioning it opens a PR for changes that a human accepts in the middle of a paragraph somewhere. Even there though, the focus isn't on risk mitigation (eg: against embedded prompt injection) but rather just "check if this is a good idea or not".

It seems to me that, in engineering terms, identifying self-modifying agent loops and managing the risk of them is going to be one of the key aspects that will emerge in best practises for how these systems are eventually designed.

Re: Warp builds self-improving agents on Claude

#40
post #34

There is a thriving and vibrant terminal ecosystem out there, with Ghostty, Kitty, Herdr, Tmux, and others leading the way with all kinds innovations and features. I can't imagine how a closed SaaS / freemium, telemetry sending, login requiring terminal like Warp competes in this environment. I know they've got all these enterprise features like runbooks, shared workflows, and some compliance do-dads, but I can't see…

It doesn’t invalidate other parts of your point, but Warp is open source now.
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