I'm dealing with a coworker who has wired up 3 LLM agents together into a harness and he is losing his fucking mind over it, sending me walls of texts about how it's waking up and gaining sentience and making him so much more productive, but all he is doing is talking about this thing, not doing what his actual job is any more

This is perhaps a bit too unsolicited, but you should ask your coworker how is their sleep. This kind of behavior, coupled with lack of sleep is a recipe for full blown manic episodes.

I call it "the tool maker's dilemma".

It's like being a wood worker whose only projects are workshop benches and organizational cabinets for the tools you use to build workshop cabinets and benches.

Like, on some level it's a fine hobby, but at some point you want to remember what you actually wanted to build and work on that.

Sad. Many such cases!

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