gilgoomesh
Joined 14 years ago
Joined 14 years ago
But that's before the prompt.
Then after the prompt, every tool call the agent makes adds to the context. Longer turns can easily consume 50k-100k tokens between the agent and various tool calls (reading the filesystem, reading files, reading compiler output, reading memories).
Then each "turn" with the agent stays in context and is fed into the next turn. Two or three turns and you're up near 250k.
Better download some more RAM.
There's Mistral. Although they've been surprisingly quiet for the last 6 months.
I've watched interviews with Rebecca Heineman (one of the devs involved) on the topic. It did not make her happy.
Here's an article from the era:
https://www.gamespot.com/articles/mac-half-life-canceled/110...
Interview with Rebecca Heineman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPTLPXNtb2I
(skip to timecode 1:36:41 for the Half-Life details)
That's a very narrow read of the word "hacking".
We're literally on a website called "Hacker News". We're not all trying to break things.