Gemini with Deep Research has been really awesome to work with. It’s useful already now, but gets me very excited to see where agent work goes.
Ask HN: Are there any real examples of AI agents doing work?
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Most people in large work environments are very task specific and deviation from playbook is punished.
That’s great. They’re still capable of doing other things
Sure, they're capable. They can be assigned to a new task after getting instructions and tools for that task ; )
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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
There’s just words on the webpage of genatron. Not a single screenshot or video, no example output, no customer statements. Even the technical details are very thin. Doesn’t give me a good impression of what they’re trying to sell.
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#75I've created agents for the following: - ICP / Sales Agent: I hired an offshore resource and built a GPT that they can send titles and other identifiers to, and it would say if it was in our ICP or not. I created it for a specific process that has outlined steps and FAQ from that person on things they have encountered, I plan on adding more questions and answers. This was super helpful on saving time on answering que…
Those sound like basic LLM workflows with nothing agentic about it.
You are right, it is more of an LLM workflow.
The workflows can be easily updated to be an agent, the scan already creates sales opportunities for me and can be updated to create messages based on active email campaigns that I have created.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
The difference is that algorithms have known inputs and “agent” implies a a greater level of adaptability to unforeseen inputs.
That sounds alright, but I'm having difficulty imagining a situation where a business wants to produce a quote with novel element types / parameterizations not yet seen before without a human hand in the loop.
I’m way out in assumption-land, but I’m guessing all quotes would be reviewed by humans, and the goal is to take the drudgery out of first drafts.
For that it would be fine if the AI took a stab at something novel like a faster than usual delivery timeline or higher than usual part tolerances. It might get the economics wrong, but just by including them it would be easier for a human to adjust.
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#78Amazing that at nearing the 50 comment mark and there only seems to be people who have successfully created tutorial examples? And some other things that could be done with more purpose specific traditional solutions. And some people showing love for the concepts. This is probably the bleakest I've seen a Ask HN thread considering this is where all the money is going. I think one stark thing that maybe isn't being ad…
> This is probably the bleakest I've seen a Ask HN thread
There was a similar one asking about blockchains solving actual problems. There too the answer was essentially: nope.
Update: there it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22914430
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#79sales ops here. I was just tasked with figuring out how to use AI to use previous quotes to generate new quotes so sales people don't spend so much time creating quotes. Seems like the perfect thing for an agent. Anyone done this?
curious what is this in context to, and which industry? I assume this isn't SaaS sales?
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