Requests, Promises, Assertions, and Declarations: Rewriting Our AI Agent Workflow as a 1986 'Committed Speech' Machine
Why do 200-line agent prompts, Asimov's Three Laws, and sequential pre-landing checklists all fail the same way? How Fernando Flores's 1986 Committed Speech, Nuel Belnap's 1977 4-Valued Logic, and Tony Hoare's 1978 CSP turned our Makefile and init.d workflow into a self-healing Commitment Machine.
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