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Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Post by noncoml »

skyberrys wrote: post #123
bee_rider wrote: post #109

On one hand, folks here seem quite skeptical of the idea, and are pointing out some obvious flaws. On the other, the announcement post… also seems quite skeptical of the idea, and devotes a lot of text to the ridiculous things their AI’s have done. I’m slightly confused as to why they would release it in that case. But if nothing else it will give them more wackiness to blog about.

You reminded me of a comic hanging up in the engineering college. It was a picture of a student getting their finger zapped with the thought bubble of "ouch, that hurt. Wonder if it will happen if I do that again?" And the caption was along the lines of "How to tell if you are ment for engineering."

I’m genuinely not sure who is meant for Engineering. The one who would try it again or the one who wouldn’t

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Post by Nevin1901 »

Correct me if I'm wrong but a human will be able to cut through the noise with quirky advertising, new/novel distribution methods, etc.

Most of the bottleneck in business isn't building the things or sourcing, it's mostly advertising/sales.

These specifically require doing something unique or interesting.

Sure, maybe LLMs can help with fulfillment or operations, but distribution still remains the hard part.

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Post by htrp »

>This is why we’re releasing Pion today. Pion is available as a research preview. If you have an existing business or an interesting business idea you want to hand off to AI, please sign up on our waitlist to get access. We’re excited to run many more businesses, and through them, contribute significantly more insights on frontier model capabilities.

Unclear what the rev shares will look like.

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Post by walrus01 »

switchbak wrote: post #52
piterrro wrote: post #31

Interesting to see these experiments. This is early but imagine in few years there will be companies mostly run by agents with a light overview from a human operator. What then happens to scaling of the bussinesses? I would assume, just like today anyone can vibe code an app, there will be vibecoded bussinesses. Maybe its time to start building infrastructure for these bussinesses instead, its a non existent market y…

Part of the issue is that the worst kind of people are already head over heels excited about this. We're already seeing the Crypto->Web3->LLM get rich quick folks take to this like wildfire. And much like wildfire, they'll raze the ground to ashes before anyone can use it for legitimate means. If you think I'm joking, check this out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-Rqv9dOB1U I don't think any of us are ready for th…

My favorite term for this in general is "irrational exuberance". Plenty of it was seen during the most bubble-like days of the 1997-2000 dotcom boom. Anyone remember beenz and flooz?

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Post by rznicolet »

skyberrys wrote: post #123
bee_rider wrote: post #109

On one hand, folks here seem quite skeptical of the idea, and are pointing out some obvious flaws. On the other, the announcement post… also seems quite skeptical of the idea, and devotes a lot of text to the ridiculous things their AI’s have done. I’m slightly confused as to why they would release it in that case. But if nothing else it will give them more wackiness to blog about.

You reminded me of a comic hanging up in the engineering college. It was a picture of a student getting their finger zapped with the thought bubble of "ouch, that hurt. Wonder if it will happen if I do that again?" And the caption was along the lines of "How to tell if you are ment for engineering."

Sounds like this ancient XKCD: https://xkcd.com/242/ (Normal person doesn't pull the lever again; scientist wonders if that happens every time. I assume the engineer does, too...)

Re: Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously

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Post by [deleted] »

skyberrys wrote: post #123
bee_rider wrote: post #109

On one hand, folks here seem quite skeptical of the idea, and are pointing out some obvious flaws. On the other, the announcement post… also seems quite skeptical of the idea, and devotes a lot of text to the ridiculous things their AI’s have done. I’m slightly confused as to why they would release it in that case. But if nothing else it will give them more wackiness to blog about.

You reminded me of a comic hanging up in the engineering college. It was a picture of a student getting their finger zapped with the thought bubble of "ouch, that hurt. Wonder if it will happen if I do that again?" And the caption was along the lines of "How to tell if you are ment for engineering."

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