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The principle that technologists should be mindful of the ways their technologies could be misused by authoritarian powers. Coined by Bruce Schneier in 2010.

A single, one-shot LLM call that produces its output directly — no turns, no tool use, no observation loop. Less a formal architecture than a useful counterpoint to the ReAct agent: where ReAct interleaves reasoning and action over many steps, a generator agent just generates and stops.

A person who mindlessly relays an AI's output to others instead of engaging with it themselves — passing along generated text without reading, understanding, or validating it, adding nothing beyond being the human in the loop. Popularized by Niklas Gruhn's post "Don't be a meat proxy" (2026): the antidote is to read, understand, and rewrite the AI's answer in your own words as proof you actually did the work.

An agent pattern that interleaves reasoning and acting: the model alternates between natural-language 'thoughts' (reasoning traces) and actions (tool calls, queries), feeding each observation back into the next reasoning step. Introduced by Yao et al. in 'ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models' (2022).

An ETA that is just total bullshit.