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Now What? A Recipe for After the Problem Setting (in the Agentic Age) | Tom Silver

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The research recipe I follow after defining a problem setting, with a new step for the agentic age: implement the pure agent baseline.

A follow-up to What’s Your Problem? An Oft-Missing Section in AI Papers. A while back, I argued that AI papers should include a Problem Setting section. My litmus test was whether a reader could implement a Problem abstract class, a Method abstract class, and a run function that takes both and returns metrics. That post was nominally about writing, but really it was about thinking. What class of problems do you care about? What is a method allowed to know and do? How will you judge performance? This post picks up where that one left off. You have defined the problem setting. Now what?…

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