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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. skeeter2020 ◴[03 Jul 25 02:22 UTC] No.44451016[source]▶
I took a course* on agent based system in grad school in 2006, but nobody has been building what agents mean today for 5 or even 3 years.

*https://www.slideserve.com/verdi/seng-697-agent-based-softwa...

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2. golergka ◴[03 Jul 25 04:19 UTC] No.44451588[source]▶
First GPT-based app I've built was in summer 2022, right after I got API access to GPT-3, and I was writing first autonomous GPT wrapper right after I got GPT-4 access in February GPT-3. It didn't have "tools" it could use, but it had memory and it was (clumsily) moving along a pre-defined chat scenario. And I'm nowhere near top AI researchers who have got to have had close access much earlier — so I have absolutely no doubt there's got to be people who have been writing exactly what we now call "agents" for 3 years straight.