Code-SHARP: When Agents Start Writing Their Own Ambitions
Automation has a boring failure mode: the moment the world becomes slightly more complicated than the workflow diagram, the system starts asking for a human. That is not because the model lacks vocabulary. It is because the automation system does not know how to grow its own capabilities. Most AI agents are still built around a fixed menu of actions, fixed task definitions, and fixed reward signals. They can optimize, but they rarely expand the set of things they know how to optimize for. Very impressive, in the way a microwave is impressive until you ask it to cook without buttons. ...