I held this point of view for a while but I came to the (possibly naive) conclusion that it was just forced self-assurance. Truth is, the issues with sub-par output are just a prompting and supervision deficiency. An agent team can produce better end product if supervised and promoted correctly. The issue is most don’t take the time to do that. I’m not saying I like that this is true, quite the opposite. It is the reality of things now.

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vrganj 4 hours ago | parent [-]

At some point the herding of idiot savants becomes more work than just doing the damn thing yourself in the first place.

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lxgr 4 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm happy to herd idiots all my life if they come out of it smarter than they went in. The real tragedy with current LLM agents is that they're effectively stateless, and so all the effort of "educating" them feels wasted.

Once continuous learning is solved, I predict the problem addressed by TFA to become orders of magnitude bigger: What's the motivation for anyone to teach a person if an LLM can learn it much faster, will work for you forever, and won't take any sick days or consider changing careers?

	▲	vrganj 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		At that point, I think it'll be time to admit to ourselves that capitalism is over. The only reason we somewhat made it work is due to the interdependence between labor and capital. Once that's broken, the wheels will start falling off.