talk_path.md

Talk Path

Legend: ⛰ Obstacle | 🧩 Pattern | ⚠️ Anti-pattern

Section 1: Context Management

Foundations

• ⛰️Cannot Learn
• ⛰️Context rot
• 🧩 1 Context management
• 🧩 2 Knowledge Document
• 🧩 3 Ground rules
• 🧩 4 Extract Knowledge

Focus

• ⛰️ Limited Context Window
• ⚠️ 5 Distracted Agent
• ⛰️ Limited Focus
• 🧩 6 Focused Agent
• 🧩 7 References
• 🧩 8 Knowledge Composition

Noise

• ⛰️ Excess Verbosity
• 🧩 9 Semantic Zoom
• 🧩 10 Noise Cancellation

Section 2: Reliability

Non-Determinism

• ⛰️ Non-Determinism
• 🧩 11 Knowledge Checkpoint
• 🧩 12 Parallel Implementations
• 🧩 13 Offload Determinism

Hallucinations and Complexity

• ⛰️ Hallucinations
• ⚠️ 14 Perfect Recall Fallacy
• 🧩 15 Playgrounds
• ⚠️ 16 Unvalidated Leaps
• ⛰️ Degrades Under Complexity
• 🧩 17 Chain of Small Steps

Forcing Compliance

• 🧩 18 Hooks (deterministic lifecycle automation)
• 🧩 19 Reminders (User Reminders, TODOs, Instruction Sandwich)

Section 3: Steering

• ⛰️ Black Box AI
• ⛰️ Compliance Bias
• ⚠️ 20 Silent Misalignment
• 🧩 21 Active Partner
• 🧩 22 Check Alignment
• 🧩 23 Context Markers
• ⚠️ 24 Answer Injection
• ⚠️ 25 Tell Me a Lie
• 🧩 26 Reverse Direction
• 🧩 27 Text Native (ASCII)

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Not In the Talk

• 🧩 Polyglot AI
• 🧩 Borrow Behaviors
• 🧩 Softest Prototype
• 🧩 Take All Paths
• 🧩 Shared Canvas