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ramesh31 ◴[] No.43536049[source]

More capability, less reliability please. I want something that can achieve superhuman results 1 out of 10 times, not something that gives mediocre human results 9 out of 10 times.

All of reality is probabilistic. Expecting that to map deterministically to solving open ended complex problems is absurd. It's vectors all the way down.

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1. recursive ◴[] No.43537360[source]

> Expecting that to map deterministically to solving open ended complex problems is absurd.

TCP creates an abstraction layer with more reliability than what it's built on. If you can detect failure, you can create a retry loop, assuming you can understand the rules of the environment you're operating in.

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2. ramesh31 ◴[] No.43541202[source]

>If you can detect failure, you can create a retry loop, assuming you can understand the rules of the environment you're operating in

Indeed, this is what makes autonomous agentic tool using systems robust as well. Those retry loops become ad-hoc where needed, and the agent can self correct based on error responses, compared to a defined workflow that would get stuck in said loop if it couldn't figure things out, or just error out the whole process.