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Comment by SwellJoe

Inventing a new thing "for agents" always feels counter-productive. Your new thing isn't in the training data, so you have to teach it how to use your thing. Why not use tech that's already in the training data? Agents know Python and Django. Or, better (because the performance, maintainability, and deployment story are much nicer with no extra work, since agents write the code), agents know Go.

The very nature of LLMs means you can't invent a thing for current agents to use that they'll be better at using than the things they already know how to use from their immense training data. You can give them skills, sure, and that's useful, but it's still not their native tongue.

To make a thing that's really for agents, you need to have made a popular thing for humans ten years ago, so there's a shitload of code and documentation for them to train on.

parent SwellJoe 6 months ago

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