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Ask HN: Are there any substantial examples of blockchain solving a real problem? (2020)
Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?
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Re: Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?
#63Most “agents” are just starter prompts + a small set of tools that they can use to respond to things, like access to a database. They’re workflow automation
What else do you want them to be?
Re: Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?
#64The name for me is less important so much as can I have something that does my work for me. I've been starting to play with my own solutions between the 3 foundational modal companies. I've started to try to build my own stuff a bit, I think I need to learn more about apple scripting, also so far my experiments have required me to have multiple systems running to make it super easy for me. You're all going to laugh a…
Just an update here, I forgot I'm supposed to have childlike wonder and it's the weekend but then I remembered...sooo.... 4hours later I now have a complete marketing department of agents, it works pretty well actually. I gave it a high level task around building a full campaign, and it is. Here is the social media manager agent off on it's own composing the tweets, the social media manager agent is build with 4 internal agents, but calls out to my hackernews agent and my google search agent when needed. It actually works super well... you can see it running here, the manager even told it to do all the tweets for the year, so I presume it's going to stop at 365 tweets, https://s.h4x.club/eDubwABJ
Going to spend the rest of the day building out the full system till I have a complete complement of agents that can do every task in the startup, heh.
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#68The name for me is less important so much as can I have something that does my work for me. I've been starting to play with my own solutions between the 3 foundational modal companies. I've started to try to build my own stuff a bit, I think I need to learn more about apple scripting, also so far my experiments have required me to have multiple systems running to make it super easy for me. You're all going to laugh a…
Just an update here, I forgot I'm supposed to have childlike wonder and it's the weekend but then I remembered...sooo.... 4hours later I now have a complete marketing department of agents, it works pretty well actually. I gave it a high level task around building a full campaign, and it is. Here is the social media manager agent off on it's own composing the tweets, the social media manager agent is build with 4 inte…
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
I need an AI agent to continuously ask questions of PMs or stakeholders until the requirements are less vague. The good thing is this would be a plain english discussion which LLMs are good at. A PM can ask if something is technically feasible to some degree too. Maybe it can even break up tickets in a much better fashion too.
I’m a pm, today I built a working mockup with windsurf (golang + wails + vuejs +duckd). Windsurf uses codeium, branded as the first agentic IDE. Your requirements will improve, not sure if in the long I still need developers to build the actual software. The development process with windsurf is a bit like throwing a dice, hoping for a 6. A lot of trial and error, but if you check the git log, you see about 15 minutes…
As a PM if you're gathering requirements and building too have a look at genatron.ai
Re: Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?
#70Most “agents” are just starter prompts + a small set of tools that they can use to respond to things, like access to a database. They’re workflow automation
IMO:
Workflows = automations that use LLMs (or a sequence of LLM calls) at some point. Eg. "Classify this input and respond with JSON"
Is Siri or Google Assistant an "agent"? I would say no it's basically an LLM with function calling. Eg. "What's the weather -> uses predefined weather api"
Agents would need to be able to self integrate, which is impossible without giving them full computer use or admin permissions - which creates massive security risks nobody seems to be talking about.