Brex's CEO said this and I understand where he comes from, but is there a place for end to end workflows in LLM based applications? At the end of the day I agree that cutting edge software should be fully usable by agents, but I can't decide if every product should be an agent. I personally hate the UX of most agentic applications. I have this fantasy of future products where I can simply enter input X and get output Y without having to give feedback on every little thing. Of course when you're designing something it needs to be a process, but what if I can tell my phone to "buy dinner" and it just does it without bothering me at every step? What if it was just good enough? I think a conversable agent is necessary as long as the application is unsure of the accuracy of the output, but I wonder if the UX of LLM applications could be more like a rich person fixing their car, like here is my situation, just do what you need to do and don't bother me.
Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
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#3Agentic product is nice to have if im new to it, but for simple products I'm familiar with, having to put my thought into words is way more annoying than typing in a couple numbers in a UI. I always thought "agent with tools" is just a new version of UI which is a info delivery method.
But on a second thought, most people in a company is essentially "agent with tools", so maybe it's already pretty amazing
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#4Many of us use LLMs to generate code, tools and other artifacts without agents.
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Re: Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
#8Many of us use LLMs to generate code, tools and other artifacts without agents.
Could you give me an example? Like a real example of an LLM based application with no chat? Now that I think of it something like Tavily comes to mind as an example.
Re: Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
#9Agentic product is nice to have if im new to it, but for simple products I'm familiar with, having to put my thought into words is way more annoying than typing in a couple numbers in a UI. I always thought "agent with tools" is just a new version of UI which is a info delivery method. But on a second thought, most people in a company is essentially "agent with tools", so maybe it's already pretty amazing
Yeah maybe I'm conflating an "agent with tools" with a chat feature. Just because I'm using an agent with tools doesn't mean I need to chat with it, I could just click a button and have it do things, in the same way that I click a button and a driver with tools goes and gets my food.
Re: Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?
#10Many of us use LLMs to generate code, tools and other artifacts without agents.
Could you give me an example? Like a real example of an LLM based application with no chat? Now that I think of it something like Tavily comes to mind as an example.