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>The thing that struck me most is how creative they are at finding new ways to fail Wow, they are really going for that human-like behavior aren’t they?

• verdverm 10mo ago
  If we're talking about emulating users, sure, but this is supposed to be a tool that helps me get my job done. If (i.e.) you dig into how something like copilot works, they do dumb things like ask^ the LLM to do glob matching after a file read (to pull in more instructions)... just use a damn glob library instead of a non-deterministic and known to be unreliable method ^ it's just a table in the overall context, so "asking" is a bit anthropomorphizing
  • cluckindan 10mo ago
    I would consider a bunch of ”dumb/power user” agents more useful than coding agents. The more they fail to use my software, the better!
  • zahlman 10mo ago
    > ^ it's just a table in the overall context, so "asking" is a bit anthropomorphizing I interpreted GP as just saying that you are already anthropomorphizing too much by supposing that the models "find" new ways to fail (as if trying to defy you).
    • verdverm 10mo ago
      most humans do not seek out ways to defy after a certain age I did not mean to imply active choice by "find", more that they are reliably non-deterministic and have a hard time sticking to, or easy time ignoring, the instructions I did write