elicitation

asking the user what to do

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design pattern - speculative execution

Instead of asking the user what to do (elicitation) and blocking until they respond, the agent should make its best decision, log that decision, and keep going. The user can review and undo decisions later.

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video - agents need more than chat - 2026-04

At 10:30 elicitation which is asking users what to do but then instead of doing that you should make a decision and put it in a decision log and then the user can undo that decision later. So the agent doesn't get stuck.
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design pattern - speculative execution because we want to avoid agent waiting for user input

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