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How do you decide that an agent's output is good enough to stop iterating?

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How do you decide that an agent's output is good enough to stop iterating?

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Post by mathieu_aithos »

You may know the anegdote of Henry Kissinger. He asked Winston Lord to prepare a document. Each time Winston handed him the document, he asked, “Is this the best you can do?”

He finally started to read it only when Winston said "yes".

With AI it is easy to work like that, but hard to decide when to stop and we can fall in an infinite loop. Curious to know what your approaches on that point?

Re: How do you decide that an agent's output is good enough to stop iterating?

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Post by sturza »

you only end up in a loop if you don’t define what you want clear enough. clarity has outcome, acceptance criteria, boundaries and non goals. once those are clear to you and you transform them into text, you have significantly better chances of avoiding the infinite loop.

tldr: you only get stuck in an infinite loop when you don’t know what you want(when to stop)

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