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What to build instead of AI agents

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233 points giuliomagnifico | 2 comments | 03 Jul 25 00:02 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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transcriptase ◴[03 Jul 25 00:58 UTC] No.44450515[source]▶
I love that there are somehow authorities on tech that realistically they could have 1-2 years experience with tops. It’s the reverse of the “seeking coder with 10 years of experience in a 2 year old language” meme.
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noosphr ◴[03 Jul 25 01:01 UTC] No.44450544[source]▶
I've been building what's called ai agents since gpt3 came out. There are plenty of other people who did the same thing. That's five years now. If you can't be an expert after 5 years then there is no such thing as experts.

Of course agents is now a buzzword that means nothing so there is that.

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1. apwell23 ◴[03 Jul 25 01:17 UTC] No.44450635[source]▶
curious what did you build? experience only counts if you are shipping right?
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2. noosphr ◴[03 Jul 25 01:34 UTC] No.44450744[source]▶
The biggest thing was an internal system for medium frequency trading.

It had a lot of moving parts of which agents were the top 30% other systems would interact with. Storing, retrieving and ranking the information was the more important 70% that isn't as glamorous and no one makes courses about.

I still have no idea why everyone is talking about whatever the hottest decoder only model is, encoder only models are a lot more useful for most tasks not directly interfacing with a human.