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What to build instead of AI agents

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233 points giuliomagnifico | 1 comments | 03 Jul 25 00:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.496s | 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. eadmund ◴[03 Jul 25 12:53 UTC] No.44454512[source]▶
> If you can't be an expert after 5 years then there is no such thing as experts.

I think you’ll find that after 10 years one’ll look back on oneself at 5 years’ experience and realise that one wasn’t an expert back then. The same is probably true of 20 years looking back on 10.

Given a median career of about 40 years, I think it’s fair to estimate that true expertise takes at least 10–15 years.