primitive

decision infrastructure for coordinated intelligence

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

@primitive_hq: what if your decisions became reliable infrastructure for your agents?

[primitive @primitive_hq]

primitive fixes this

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Multiplayer AI needs to move past the group chat phase. Chats are chaotic, everyone sees everything (creating social & management issues), and they're bad for long projects. Worse, they keep AI trapped inside existing teams, when its real promise is working & helping across them.

[primitive @primitive_hq]

the atomic unit of coordination is the decision

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

agents need infrastructure for their decisions
humans need infrastructure for their decisions
the future needs decision infrastructure
without it, agent-accelerated organizations descend into chaos

[primitive @primitive_hq]

exactly right

[Hexabl0b @hexablob]

@yoheinakajima A decision that was right last quarter can be wrong today, so I think the playbook needs to show when a rule has been superseded. Otherwise a perfectly retrieved answer can still tell the agent to do the wrong thing.

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

there is a billion dollars waiting for those who turn the core social primitives that organizations run on into technical infrastructure

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

decision infrastructure fixes this

[Vineeth Voruganti @TheMarshmalon]

love when a engineer says "we decided" when they are just talking about them and claude

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

what if we had tooling for this 👀

[Noah Brier @heyitsnoah]

Very fun convo with @kaseyklimes about agentic memory and organizational theory for the latest @fdeployed pod. https://t.co/KniBrx97ia

[primitive @primitive_hq]

@kaseyklimes @heyitsnoah always start with the foundations

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

🚨fresh podcast out!
fun dive into the history of decision infrastructure, how to coordinate effectively across teams of humans and agents, and of course @primitive_hq with @heyitsnoah

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

coordination is.

hence @primitive_hq

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

@yoheinakajima

[primitive @primitive_hq]

is primitive an agentic engineering tool or an agentic design tool?

yes

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

this is definitely better than nothing, but almost every design team I meet with is doing this and it isn't working

good news is that a design system is essentially a collection of decisions systematically enforced across product development over time...

like @primitive_hq

[primitive @primitive_hq]

@kaseyklimes enforcement of design systems probably shouldn't be a probabilistic coin toss

[primitive @primitive_hq]

@danielkleach time for decision infrastructure 👀

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

it’s true—and bigger models won’t fix it.

given the way agents work today (loops inside loops inside loops), compounding drift is a huge problem that gets worse the more loops you add

imagine you’re a healthcare CEO who wants a report on the state of your business. you kick off a fleet of agents, who spawn subagents, crawling your enterprise knowledge base, mcp connections, etc etc

but early on, deep in one of those subagent reasoning traces, it does something smart! it uses a metaphor: “nurses and patients are like plants and animals”

in context, it makes sense and contributes to the agent’s understanding

but now those tokens are a contaminate that shifts the distribution in latent space for the next loop, and the next loop, and the next loop….

and by the end, the final healthcare enterprise report has a zoology section.

is this example a bit cartoonish? maybe, but if you’ve ever worked with long-running agents you recognize the pattern. it’s why higher reasoning often makes outputs *worse* and bigger models will simply be given longer running tasks which means anything short of perfect (which of course usually has no definition) will compound to the same result.

we’re fixing this drift with decision infrastructure at @primitive_hq. if you’re leading a team struggling with drift, my DMs are open and we have one more design partner spot to fill, let’s get your agents back on track.

[primitive @primitive_hq]

"...the world we live in is increasingly constrained by access to high-quality decisions."

@Lethain
https://t.co/6Q1Hf2ZeDl

[primitive @primitive_hq]

want to win?

make better decisions faster

[Roger L. Martin @RogerLMartin]

Agreed. Coherence is important - a set of choices that fit together and reinforce each other.