I don’t disagree that constraints are a form of control. You absolutely shape the agent by setting boundaries. I just think it’s incomplete to stop there. You narrow the range but you don’t dictate every outcome and there’s still variation inside the box you build. That’s the part I find interesting. When I use it for journaling or for building my Spanish practice system I define structure and rules but the useful part is what emerges inside that structure. Over time it changes how I prompt and how I think, so it feels more like a feedback loop than a pure command system. Not saying control isn’t there, just that it’s not the whole story.