The central point, that working with agents is some tried and true variation of existing processes, is incorrect.
Managing agents has some similarities with EM and program management but a whole lot of other dimensions like token use, avoiding drift, successful concurrency at scale, variations in prompting, testing, evaluation, etc., not to mention that the agents are hyperintelligent coders with zero common sense and a penchant for extremely literal interpretation and ultra-verbosity.
This just reads like engineers. Token use is time, labor cost. Drift happens with humans too when they’re over-extended on a task with not enough check in. That’s why we have standup, to avoid drift. Prompting is management. Zero common sense and a penchant for extremely literal interpretation? That sounds like an average engineer who may or may not be on the spectrum.
Ultra-verbosity, okay you got me, humans don’t do that. They do over complexity though, when it makes them feel smart.
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The central point, that working with agents is some tried and true variation of existing processes, is incorrect.
Managing agents has some similarities with EM and program management but a whole lot of other dimensions like token use, avoiding drift, successful concurrency at scale, variations in prompting, testing, evaluation, etc., not to mention that the agents are hyperintelligent coders with zero common sense and a penchant for extremely literal interpretation and ultra-verbosity.
This just reads like engineers. Token use is time, labor cost. Drift happens with humans too when they’re over-extended on a task with not enough check in. That’s why we have standup, to avoid drift. Prompting is management. Zero common sense and a penchant for extremely literal interpretation? That sounds like an average engineer who may or may not be on the spectrum.
Ultra-verbosity, okay you got me, humans don’t do that. They do over complexity though, when it makes them feel smart.
Yeah. Just because you can list a lot of ways that two things are similar, it doesn’t make them actually that similar in practice.
That’s why predicting the future is really really hard.
How many of these complications will anyone even remember in 12 months?