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Comment by mccoyb

I don’t think it’s possible to build a software factory unless you truly do not care about what you’re putting out.

Agent swarms, self learning, Ralph loops, execution DAGs, spending hours trying to convey my preferences into skills, yada yada — the reality is that no matter how long I spend trying to close the amortization gap between my expertise and (insert autonomous agent loop) … I always come back to see shit that I have opinions about and need to polish.

If you’re keeping on top of your craft, I just don’t think general purpose pretraining / RL is going to give you something which perfectly copies you. It can get closer and closer! But I’ve never seen agent work where I didn’t immediately start thinking of refinements …

I guess many things are okay if you’re okay with averages

parent mccoyb 1 month ago

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