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I was at an AI event and the number of people who have started talking like AI output is crazy.
It’s insidious! I used Claude code at my last job enough for it to influence my writing and speaking style without me really noticing, even though I tried to be wary of that.
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Did you just emdash not-just-X-it's-Y unironically or am I missing the satire?
Oh pardon, I’m trying to sarcastically complain how a lot of comments in this thread have a similar form: “I used this pattern in my own agent, which is different from (all the other agents which use the same representation)” Agentic development tends to encourage siloed individualistic development, so a lot of engineers reinvent similar patterns from first principles. It’s easier to write your own new thing than sur…
i had asked about this a while ago
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With my database hat on, in the context of agentic systems I would argue that write-ahead logs form a good (and potentially transactional) interface between speculative agent work and durable world mutations [0]. That said, there are a _lot_ of "logs for agents" papers that I've read (and unfortunately gotten assigned to review) which are basically "we asked claude to hack on a graph DB and generate a paper". [0] htt…
We should probably only interact with the agent by writing to the log, which it executes from, and the agent should probably only interact with the external environment by writing and executing code. That fixes a lot of issues with non-determinism.
> rr records a group of Linux user-space processes and captures all inputs to those processes from the kernel, plus any nondeterministic CPU effects performed by those processes (of which there are very few).
I think the solution will resemble that. You don't control the LLM, sure. But you can control what it sees, and maybe that's good enough.
The problem I have with graph representations relative to LLMs is that you can never directly apply the concept. Everything that speaks to an LLM must ultimately be serialized. There's no getting around the token stream semantics.
I've found that one big flat markdown file tends to outperform everything. You could certainly project an event log into a graph and then serialize that, but it starts to feel like a Rube Goldberg machine at this point. It's a lot easier if you just work with the same terms that the models do.
Remember if that big document rarely changes and everything that comes before it is also constant, you'll pay something like 10% of the normal rate with providers like OAI for the tokens in those documents. The clever schemes to piecemeal out information feel good to the ego and might appeal to accounting at first glance, but I think the bitter lesson will ultimately win out here. We already have a million token context windows. Even if 90% of that is bullshit it's still a lot of tokens to work with.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Did you just emdash not-just-X-it's-Y unironically or am I missing the satire?
I was at an AI event and the number of people who have started talking like AI output is crazy.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s insidious! I used Claude code at my last job enough for it to influence my writing and speaking style without me really noticing, even though I tried to be wary of that.
Soon we'll be able to carbon date humans based on AI exposure. brb pivoting my startup
Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s insidious! I used Claude code at my last job enough for it to influence my writing and speaking style without me really noticing, even though I tried to be wary of that.
Soon we'll be able to carbon date humans based on AI exposure. brb pivoting my startup
Earlier quoted context omitted.
With my database hat on, in the context of agentic systems I would argue that write-ahead logs form a good (and potentially transactional) interface between speculative agent work and durable world mutations [0]. That said, there are a _lot_ of "logs for agents" papers that I've read (and unfortunately gotten assigned to review) which are basically "we asked claude to hack on a graph DB and generate a paper". [0] htt…
We should probably only interact with the agent by writing to the log, which it executes from, and the agent should probably only interact with the external environment by writing and executing code. That fixes a lot of issues with non-determinism.