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My Agent Setup

chad.cm

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Re: My Agent Setup

#11
ty for the writeup!

being able to talk to each of the agents via dm (but also in group chats) sounds interesting

does that mean that you have 1 chat per domain specific agent? can you also start multiple sessions/threads or is that not part of the way you interact with them currently?

Re: My Agent Setup

#12
Not pointed at the author, but at the current state of affairs: this is fucking exhausting. We went and made a trillions-dollar market out of the bikeshedding maximization machine.

Re: My Agent Setup

#13
post #11

ty for the writeup! being able to talk to each of the agents via dm (but also in group chats) sounds interesting does that mean that you have 1 chat per domain specific agent? can you also start multiple sessions/threads or is that not part of the way you interact with them currently?

it's just like Slack really. I have a DM open for each agent where I can talk direct. But they are also part of individual rooms also where I just need to @ them and they open a thread. They can talk to each other also by @'ing each other (in public rooms or ones they both belong to)

It's literally just like humans.. except. not.

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#14

Not pointed at the author, but at the current state of affairs: this is fucking exhausting. We went and made a trillions-dollar market out of the bikeshedding maximization machine.

this author agrees. hence my attempt at steering part of that trillion dollars for my non-profit which maybe someday might do some good.

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#15

Not pointed at the author, but at the current state of affairs: this is fucking exhausting. We went and made a trillions-dollar market out of the bikeshedding maximization machine.

No we did not.

LLM was invented and its just clear that this is something someone needs to build.

Why?

Because it makes just sense. You don't want an agent running on a laptop you close. You want to keep context small, you want to split up work / parallize it etc.

I'm now waiting for a while until the open source agent platform emerges and im borderline motivated to build something but i'm not doing it. He did, which is not a crime.

Re: My Agent Setup

#17
post #11

ty for the writeup! being able to talk to each of the agents via dm (but also in group chats) sounds interesting does that mean that you have 1 chat per domain specific agent? can you also start multiple sessions/threads or is that not part of the way you interact with them currently?

it's just like Slack really. I have a DM open for each agent where I can talk direct. But they are also part of individual rooms also where I just need to @ them and they open a thread. They can talk to each other also by @'ing each other (in public rooms or ones they both belong to) It's literally just like humans.. except. not.

makes sense, ty

Re: My Agent Setup

#18
I've been building a triage agent for my inbox and whatsapp (it's product shaped), which has ironically left me not building one of these. So even while productizing, I'm getting fomo on the full monty.

I've also been building a harness that maintains my apps which I'm hoping to open source.

Hard agree that these things don't have personal ROI, and are actually quite hard to build reliably.

But it's really fun! And having a bot fix a live error is pretty exciting.

Re: My Agent Setup

#20
post #19

Have you experimented with using a single executive agent (instead of multiple agents)?

that was one of my FAQs at the bottom. I want separation of duties and least-privilege so agents can only access what they need for their particular duties.

That said, my vision is to eventually build manager agents to manage the minion agents. Like real people. I have no idea if "people" is the right analogy for all this work but my brain can't really wrap around a different analogy yet.

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