I do not know what an agent is and at this point I am too afraid to ask.
It's gonna deny your mortgage in 5 years and sentence you to jail in 10, if these techbros get their way. So I'd start learning about it asap
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#42There is the Claude Code cli, now Gemini CLI. Where is ChatGPT CLI?
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#43One the one hand this is super cool and maybe very beneficial, something I definitely want to try out. On the other, LLMs always make mistakes, and when it's this deeply integrated into other system I wonder how severe these mistakes will be, since they are bound to happen.
This.
Recently I uploaded screenshot of movie show timing at a specific theatre and asked ChatGPT to find the optimal time for me to watch the movie based on my schedule.
It did confidently find the perfect time and even accounted for the factors such as movies in theatre start 20 mins late due to trailers and ads being shown before movie starts. The only problem: it grabbed the times from the screenshot totally incorrectly which messed up all its output and I tried and tried to get it to extract the time accurately but it didn’t and ultimately after getting frustrated I lost the trust in its ability. This keeps happening again and again with LLMs.
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#46It's very hard for me to imagine the current level of agents serving a useful purpose in my personal life. If I ask this to plan a date night with my wife this weekend, it needs to consult my calendar to pick the best night, pick a bar and restaurant we like (how would it know?), book a babysitter (can it learn who we use and text them on my behalf?), etc. This is a lot of stuff it has to get right, and it requires a…
It has to earn that trust and that takes time. But there are a lot of personal use cases like yours that I can imagine.
For example, I suddenly need to reserve a dinner for 8 tomorrow night. That's a pain for me to do, but if I could give it some basic parameters, I'm good with an agent doing this. Let them make the maybe 10-15 calls or queries needed to find a restaurant that fits my constraints and get a reservation.
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#47I'm not so optimistic as someone that works on agents for businesses and creating tools for it. The leap from low 90s to 99% is classic last mile problem for LLM agents. The more generic and spread an agent is (can-do-it-all) the more likely it will fail and disappoint.
Can't help but feel many are optimizing happy paths in their demos and hiding the true reality. Doesn't mean there isn't a place for agents but rather how we view them and their potential impact needs to be separated from those that benefit from hype.
just my two cents
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#48The "spreadsheet" example video is kind of funny: guy talks about how it normally takes him 4 to 8 hours to put together complicated, data-heavy reports. Now he fires off an agent request, goes to walk his dog, and comes back to a downloadable spreadsheet of dense data, which he pulls up and says "I think it got 98% of the information correct... I just needed to copy / paste a few things. If it can do 90 - 95% of the…
I’ve worked at places that sre run on spreadsheets. You’d be amazed at how often they’re wrong IME
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