Cards
- A thermostat that checks temperature once a season cannot maintain a stable room.
- OKR is the dominant goal-setting framework: teams set 3-5 objectives per quarter, define measurable…
- AI-native companies can close this loop: the comparator is an AI agent, the cycle approaches zero,…
- But in practice the loop is open: the comparator is a manager's conscious judgment, the cycle runs…
- Locke and Latham explicitly cite cybernetic engineering as the source of their model — the same…
- Locke and Latham already answered this in 1990: goal-setting in management IS feedback control —…
- Locke and Latham described goal-setting as a feedback control loop: the goal is the reference…
- Closed-loop feedback control is well understood in engineering and now standardized in software.…
- Kubernetes has already implemented and standardized this pattern: any developer can define a custom…
- What Jenco calls a desired state system is closed-loop feedback control applied to software: the…
- Kubernetes' reconciliation loop is an adaptation of closed-loop feedback control from control…
- A closed-loop feedback control system measures the actual state, computes the error against a…
- A reconciliation loop continuously observes actual state, compares it to desired state, and takes…
- Large constructions do not require large machines. Small robots can build copies of themselves and…
- When desired state is a file — separate from the process of achieving it — it inherits the entire…
- The physical world is the ultimate mutable, imperative system.
- NixOS is a particular case of a desired state system: the OS is the mutable imperative layer, the…
- A desired state system wraps a mutable, imperative interface with a declarative one. The user says…
- Describe what the system should look like, not how to get there. The package manager computes the…
- Since only the software half of agent manufacturing is automated, a missing layer is needed to…