Session 12 — Guest lecture

Session 12 of 13GuestDraft1 min read

Draft for the lecturer's approval.

The guest's details, the final topic and the reading material will be published by the lecturer. The site has no speaker name or claim that has not been approved.

The meeting is reserved for a guest lecture. Once there is a topic, this page will connect the example presented to three questions we have already studied:

• Who chooses the next action.
• Which action is blocked in code.
• Which test shows whether the system really helped.

How to prepare

A guest lecture shows a system you did not build, under conditions that are not the course's. The course's questions help you read it, even when the answer is "that was not published". Next to each question, the session where it was taught:

• Who chooses the next action, a model or code? This is what separates an agent from a fixed workflow (session 6).
• What happens when a tool fails? A silent failure looks like success (session 7).
• Which action needs a person's approval? A guardrail in code, not a sentence in the prompt (session 10).
• What was the system compared with? Success without a baseline does not show an improvement (session 10).

Before the meeting, write one question for the guest, based on one of the questions in the list and on your project. After the meeting, write two sentences: what you would adopt from the system presented, and what you would need to see to be convinced that it works.

Until the topic is published there is no submission exercise on this page.

Summary

What stays. The course's questions work on a system you did not build too: who decides, what is blocked, and what it was compared with.

What breaks. An impressive demo with no baseline and not a single failure shown.

Next: session 13, Project presentations

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