Comment by andai

Yeah, you could also see this in 2023 with Auto-GPT. People were letting GPT "drive" when what they actually needed, in most cases, was like ten lines of Python (and maybe a few calls to a llm() function).

The alternative is running your ten lines of Python in the most expensive, slowest, least reliable way possible. (Sure is popular though)

For example, most people were using the agents for internet research. It would spin for hours, get distracted or forget what it was supposed to be doing.

Meanwhile `import duckduckgo` and `import llm` and you can write ten lines that does the same thing in 20 seconds, actually runs deterministically, and costs 50x less.

The current models are much better -- good enough that the Auto-GPT is real now! -- but running poorly specified control flow in the most expensive way possible is still a bad idea.