http://programmer.ie/tags/policy-optimization/ Recent content in Policy Optimization on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:49:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/advanced-agents-from-first-principles-15/ Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:49:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/post/advanced-agents-from-first-principles-15/ <h1 id="how-do-you-optimize-an-agent-policy-without-turning-it-into-another-black-box">How Do You Optimize an Agent Policy Without Turning It Into Another Black Box?</h1> <p>By now our advanced agent can do a lot.</p> <p>It can:</p> <ul> <li>route tasks to different models or specialists,</li> <li>decide whether to search,</li> <li>choose a search budget,</li> <li>decide when to escalate,</li> <li>invoke critics,</li> <li>retry or recover,</li> <li>stop when evidence is strong enough,</li> <li>learn from verified production trajectories,</li> <li>and trace the decisions that produced each outcome.</li> </ul> <p>That creates a new problem.</p>