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Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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This is super cute. I haven't tried it or anything but it's really fun, seems genuinely useful too. I don't really get people calling it cringe.

They're thinking it's serious like Gas Town, that's why

>They're thinking it's serious like Gas Town, that's why

It's not? https://munderdiffl.in/#pricing

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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an office of your clones. next they'll add a clone HR department to handle the clone performance reviews, and a clone IT guy who's also a clone and keeps filing tickets against himself.

Can't be worse then the preformative just-have-to-be-done newage bs HR reviews in modern big corpo landscape.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Is it just me or do AI made websites tend to be too verbose?

Not quite verbose but they tend to repeat the same few ideas multiple times with varied wording/imagery. You keep scrolling because you think you’re gonna see something new and by the end you’ve realized you just read the same thing 4 times over.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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If this dropped just five years ago no one would understand what on earth this software does . In many ways I still don't. Incredible the development we've seen lately, wonder what will stick and what won't?

Why does everyone assume people in the past were idiots? They probably would have figured out what this was for after some critical thinking. Remember those people wrote massive complicated software by hand.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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If this dropped just five years ago no one would understand what on earth this software does . In many ways I still don't. Incredible the development we've seen lately, wonder what will stick and what won't?

Why does everyone assume people in the past were idiots? They probably would have figured out what this was for after some critical thinking. Remember those people wrote massive complicated software by hand .

I didn't imply people in the past were idiots, but how on earth would anyone know what an _agent harness_ is, say?

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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I've thought about something like this. When there is a lot of stuff happening at once, it's a mistake to try and communicate it all with text. Agents use tools, reference databases, reference the web, interact with other agents, and spend time processing the information. When you have several agents operating at the same time, communicating what they are doing using some kind of spatial map is a really smart idea.

The office is a decent analog for such a map. Referencing a database? That operation along with processing the information takes a little bit of time. During the interval, have the avatar move to a file cabinet and back to their desk. Have their computer screen change when they access web resources. If they use a particular tool, it can be represented somewhere in the room and used the same way. Interacting with another agent can be similarly represented.

Symbolizing the operation of the agent with movement and behavior is a great way to give an overview. It would support a much richer intuition for how they are accomplishing a task. It wouldn't even need to be a game UI for people who will have a hard time feeling like they are doing serious work while watching what appears to be a game, but that wouldn't bother me.

Re: Munder Difflin – Agent harness to run an office of your clones

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does everyone assume people in the past were idiots? They probably would have figured out what this was for after some critical thinking. Remember those people wrote massive complicated software by hand .

I didn't imply people in the past were idiots, but how on earth would anyone know what an _agent harness_ is, say?

Because the term or concept of “AI Agent” existed long before LLMs??? Jesus…
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