local vs global optimization

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Agent optimized locally (given constraints) without access to global problem understanding (full solution space). This is a context boundary failure.

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human ai collaboration 2 system understanding requirement 1 stateless context loss 1 prompt anthropic bias 1 multi agent orchestration 1 evaluation context bias 1 constraint specification gap 1 constraint specification completeness 1 agent behavior patterns 1 agent autonomy 1

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@unclebobmartin: Always remember that you are the engineer. Useful as the AI's are, they are t... example_of

Agent optimized locally (given constraints) without access to global problem understanding (full solution space). This is a context boundary failure.

@thinkingshivers: I submitted a draft of my short story to Claude for copy editing. Sometimes h... example_of

Claude optimized locally (sentence quality) while harming globally (human authenticity signal). This is a multi-objective optimization failure caused by incomplete context about the goal hierarchy.

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