Three-Generation Agent Taxonomy
- Entity ID:
ent-20260419-340955f7c5bf - Type:
concept - Scope:
shared - Status:
active - Aliases: 1st/2nd/3rd gen taxonomy, generation model
Description
Nam's taxonomy placing Claude Code at the 2nd-gen peak. 1st gen: human writes, AI suggests (Copilot autocomplete). 2nd gen: human leads, AI assists, human is verification agent (Claude Code, Cursor). 3rd gen: AI generates, compilers verify, machine is verification agent (AutoBE). Reliability math: 2nd gen is 0.95^n -> 0; 3rd gen is 1.0^n = 1.0.
Key claims
- 3rd-gen verification with 2nd-gen infrastructure is what hooks and star-chambers approximate
- Compound reliability is the structural limit of human-verified agents
Relations
- Jeongho Nam --[owns]--> Three-Generation Agent Taxonomy
- Three-Generation Agent Taxonomy --[informed_by]--> Second-Generation Ceiling
- Claude Code --[related_to]--> Three-Generation Agent Taxonomy