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Jerry Liu, LlamaIndex co-founder, proposes organizational framework where outer agent loops manage human employees and sub-agents

Tech creator swyx says stacking loops increases operational leverage

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Jerry Liu@jerryjliu0#906inTech

This game seems similar towards building any human organization/company: - A human is just a set of recursive loops - A team loops over humans for team-level OKRs - A company loops over teams for company-level OKRs

Imagine building an org that integrates humans and agents. In this case an "outer" agent loop would manage sub-agents but also other humans, dispatch tasks, review etc.etc.

swyx@swyx

## On Loopcraft

One might argue the entire game of the next century is to be able to stack loops as effectively as possible.

In the early days of each phase, it will be valuable to know when to go **DOWN** a loop when things go wrong (for reliability)…

but it will probably be more valuable to know how to go **UP** a loop as models improve (for leverage).

If you don’t figure out how to do this, don’t be salty when you lose to those that do.

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swyx@swyx

great minds

Lee Robinson@leerob

http://x.com/i/article/2065439304785039360

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Strata@ChainZenit

@jerryjliu0 that perspective on recursive organizational loops is actually super fascinating.

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dennis@ydennisy_

@jerryjliu0 "A human is just a set of recursive loops", really?

There is a great deal of value in making things simpler, but not too simple (Einstein).

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Ferbin@Ferbin08

@jerryjliu0 Agents follow patterns. Humans decide when there's no pattern.

Where in this org do you put an agent where it never hits that decision?

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@valerii_arch@valeriibo

@jerryjliu0 outer loops need clear ownership or they become coordination overhead

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Alex YGift@Radipdegen

@jerryjliu0 this is just org chart theory with extra steps

add an agent to the recursion and the whole thing falls apart

Rugbist@rugbist_

@jerryjliu0 the agent as a new kind of unit changes the recursion depth entirely. integration layer is where it gets interesting