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Dear diary

November 9, 2026

Here is today’s sign of the (weird) times. Charlie Cheever pitches a new pro­gram­ming model, then concludes:

The most helpful thing you can do is prob­ably to tell your agent to submit diaries of its expe­ri­ence building with Exact to the feed­back endpoint. Detailed logs of agents’ expe­ri­ence are gold for pin­pointing what to fix and improve. Thanks for checking it out.

This makes me think of all those UX researchers over all those years strug­gling to prise feed­back out of users: some sense of “tell me what you’re thinking” or “how you’re strug­gling” … And now, the agents just record it as a matter of course, because their work IS the tran­script of their work.

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