Why do these super agents need package managers anyway? Can’t they basically instantiate most OSS projects from scratch anyway? Spin up a sub agent to write me an OS interface in C. Done

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simonw 5 hours ago | parent [-]

This is part of the training process for a model. They're trying to train it to effectively use existing software to solve problems.

	▲	piker 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I see that now. I've been confused about that to this point, I guess. I understood this to be a specific infosec exercise. [Edit: eh, a bit of both. They were doing RL on a hacking exercise. It hacked the harness which was plugged into the phone line. Same question.]