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20 days ago
I don’t understand. This badly done work wasn’t possible at all six months ago. In six more months it will be better. It’s not a mostly static technology for the last twenty plus years.
20 days ago
I don’t understand. This badly done work wasn’t possible at all six months ago. In six more months it will be better. It’s not a mostly static technology for the last twenty plus years.
Point is: it doesn't matter if agents can do it faster and cheaper than a team of humans: it's slop.
It's like writing a novel in a week that no one wants to read. If in six months you can do it in an hour, there is still zero value.
Agents are useful but very limited tools: I treat them a little machines that can translate high-level instructions into detailed code, but where I still need to review the output to make sure they understood what I meant; that's it. Zero autonomy; parallelism just means I can't keep up with the output and quality goes down.
I think the point of this project, like the fastrender slop thing, is to push the parallel agent narrative and have the financial markets believe this will create a lot more demand for inference on these models in the short term.
Example of someone falling for it: https://x.com/DKThomp/status/2019484169915572452