Author here. Collaboration with LLMs has some interesting analogies with the physics af lasers. Medium: LLM, pump energy: conversational prompting, resonant cavity: your judgement and population inversion is what makes the output shine - you are reflecting back ideas that resonate from the training data, each idea builds up on the next.

Agentic frameworks are then designing and engineering the best systems to induce this non-equilibrium state. Hermes quite literally changes the geometry of the cavity itself to induce long-lasting lasing. Is cavity engineering the logical evolution of context engineering?

Happy to hear your thoughts.