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Comment by dave1010uk

Two years ago I wrote an agent in 25 lines of PHP [0]. It was surprisingly effective, even back then before tool calling was a thing and you had to coax the LLM into returning structured output. I think it even worked with GPT-3.5 for trivial things.

In my mind LLMs are just UNIX strong manipulation tools like `sed` or `awk`: you give them an input and command and they give you an output. This is especially true if you use something like `llm` [1].

It then seems logical that you can compose calls to LLMs, loop and branch and combine them with other functions.

[0] https://github.com/dave1010/hubcap

[1] https://github.com/simonw/llm

parent dave1010uk 1 year ago

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