Adomas

A not very computer person building very computer things. Vibe banker.

[Libby Fella 🇫🇮 @LibbySnowflak]

Today is Lenin's birthday.

[God of Prompt @godofprompt]

🚨 I just read Google DeepMind’s new paper called "Intelligent AI Delegation."

And it quietly exposes why 99% of AI agents will fail in the real world.

Here’s the paper:

Most “AI agents” today aren’t agents.

They’re glorified task runners.

You give them a goal.
They break it into steps.
They call tools.
They return an output.

That’s not delegation.

That’s automation with better marketing.

Google’s paper makes a brutal point:

Delegation isn’t just splitting tasks.

It’s transferring authority, responsibility, accountability, and trust across agents dynamically.

And almost no current system does this.

Here’s what they argue real delegation actually requires:

1. Dynamic assessment

Before assigning a task, an agent must evaluate:

- Capability
- Resource availability
- Risk
- Cost
- Verifiability
- Reversibility

Not just “who has the tool?”

But: “Who should be trusted with this specific task under these constraints?”

That’s a massive shift.

2. Adaptive execution

If the delegatee underperforms…

You don’t wait for failure.

You reassign mid-execution.

Switch agents.
Escalate to a human.
Restructure the task graph.

Current agents are brittle.
Real agents need recovery logic.

3. Structural transparency

Today’s AI-to-AI delegation is opaque.

If something fails, you don’t know:

- Was it incompetence?
- Misalignment?
- Bad decomposition?
- Malicious behavior?
- Tool failure?

The paper proposes enforced auditability and verifiable completion.

In other words:

Agents must prove what they did.

Not just say they did it.

4. Trust calibration

This is huge.

Humans routinely over-trust AI.
AI agents may over-trust other agents.
Both are dangerous.

Delegation must align trust with actual capability.

Too much trust = catastrophe.
Too little trust = wasted potential.

5. Systemic resilience

This is the part nobody is talking about.

If every agent delegates to the same high-performing model…

You create a monoculture.

One failure.
System-wide collapse.

Efficiency without redundancy = fragility.

Google explicitly warns about cascading failures in agentic economies.

That’s not sci-fi.
That’s distributed systems reality.

The paper also breaks down:

- Principal-agent problems in AI
- Authority gradients between agents
- “Zones of indifference” (agents complying without critical thinking)
- Transaction cost economics for AI markets
- Game-theoretic coordination
- Hybrid human-AI delegation models

This isn’t a toy-agent paper.

It’s an operating system blueprint for the “agentic web.”

The core idea:

Delegation must be a protocol.
Not a prompt.

Right now, most “multi-agent systems” are:

Agent A → Agent B → Agent C

With zero formal responsibility structure.

In a real delegation framework:

• Roles are defined
• Permissions are bounded
• Verification is required
• Monitoring is enforced
• Market coordination is decentralized
• Failures are attributable

That’s enterprise-grade infrastructure.

And we don’t have it yet.

The most important line in the paper?

Automation is not just about what AI can do.

It’s about what AI *should* do.

That distinction will decide:

- which startups survive
- which enterprises scale
- which ai deployments implode

We’re entering the phase where:

Prompt engineering → Agent engineering → Delegation engineering.

The companies that figure out intelligent delegation protocols first will build:

• Autonomous economic systems
• Scalable AI marketplaces
• Human-AI hybrid orgs
• Resilient agent swarms

Everyone else will ship brittle demos.

This paper isn’t flashy.

No benchmarks.
No model release.
No hype numbers.

Just a 42-page warning:

If we don’t build adaptive, accountable delegation frameworks…

The agentic web collapses under its own complexity.

And honestly?

They’re probably right.

[Anton Gerashchenko @Gerashchenko_en]

❗️Russia has found a route to ship microelectronics from Europe to Russia. Then, it is used for Russia's military purposes - Bild

Journalists used GPS trackers to trace the route of parcels sent through a network of employees of "Russian Post" in Germany. The shipments involve hundreds of tons of consignments that are regularly sent to Moscow.

The parcels are transported to a warehouse near Berlin Airport, from where trucks travel through Poland and Belarus to Russia. Documents from "Uzbekistan Post" are used to process the shipments to Russia, even though the Uzbek postal service is not authorized to operate in Germany.

All test parcels containing microelectronic components that were sent by the journalists reached Moscow without any obstacles.

📹 BILD

[Adomas @adomas_s]

@strzibnyj Damn! In Copenhagen, that amount gets you a ~60m² apartment ~10-15 min train ride away from city center, so a similar location to the ad in Prague.

[UNITED24 Media @United24media]

Russian general's daughter brags about easy European visas.

🧵 1/7 ⬇️

[Visegrád 24 @visegrad24]

Just so the world doesn’t forget…

On the night between January 12th and January 13th 1991, Moscow sent troops to attack Lithuania, killing 14 Lithuanians and wounding 900

🇱🇹🇷🇺

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Even in the final months of the USSR, as the Russians were terrorizing the people of the Baltic states with not only physical brutality, but having cut off food and gas imports to starve the population, the US, UK, France and Germany pressured Vilnius to "ease tensions" with Moscow by offering concessions and to "cease the passing of anti-soviet laws".

The west never learns.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

As I said the other day, Venezuela isn’t what happens when socialism fails, it’s what happens when socialism succeeds. Corruption, poverty, repression.

[Beth @Dirtdragonmom]

Stay whimsical, my people.

[lcamtuf @lcamtuf]

Me: I want to have more friends

Tech companies:

[Adomas @adomas_s]

@sankuperis Moved to DK just over a decade ago, had the exact same shit. Ended up going to something called International House Copenhagen. They immediately understood the very common issue, and were somehow able to help cut the loop next day. Maybe Finland has something similar?

[Donatas 🇱🇹❤️🇺🇦 @mdonatas]

Hey @YouTube I am a paying user and I DO NOT approve this behavior. Please fix this ASAP.

[maksym eristavi. @maksymeristavi]

they literally use russian culture as a cover-up for a mass grave. you can't go more quintessential russia than this.

[Лeksa 🇺🇦 @lexa_lrnt]

Your daily reminder.

[Maksym Borodin @adnashmyash]

Russia is a death cult.

[Adomas @adomas_s]

@vidmantas @vatnik_destruct Valgyt reik, kočiakabinėjasivisokie!

[Adrian P 🇷🇴🇺🇦🇪🇺 @AdrianP_doc]

50 MILLION ACCOUNTS

just in one basement in Latvia.

Remember that when you see someone say "I love Russia" in your comments and just think of the scale of these operations in India, Nigeria and Russia proper where these farms not only don't raided by police but are actively supported.

[Adomas @adomas_s]

@mikker @dhh 😅