Comment by jstanley

5 hours ago

> (The analog these days would be that many people would be better off asking Claw to write a scraper for them, than having it drive Chromium 24/7...)

Possibly. But possibly you have a very long tail of sites that you hardly ever look at, and that change more frequently than you use them, and maintaining the scraper is harder work than just using Chromium.

The dream is that the Claw would judge for itself whether to write a scraper or hand-drive the browser.

That might happen more easily if LLMs were a bit lazier. If they didn't like doing drudgery they would be motivated to automate it away. Unfortunately they are much too willing to do long, boring, repetitive tasks.

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andai  5 hours ago

Yeah, I think the ideal setup is two-tier.

extremely lazy, large model

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extremely diligent Ralph

Not sure if top model should be the biggest one though. I hear opposite opinions there. Small model which delegates coding to bigger models, vs big model which delegates coding to small models.

The issue is you don't want the main driver to be big, but it needs to be big enough to have common sense w.r.t. delegating both up[0] and down...

[0] i.e. "too hard for me, I will ping Opus ..." :) do models have that level of self awareness? I wanna say it can be after a failed attempt, but my failure mode is that the model "succeeds" but the solution is total ass.