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on agent dev: sometimes a feature or bug fix is just adding another clause to the prompt, or fixing grammar.
It’s cool on one hand, that the prompt is a living document that’s both specification and implementation, but also clunky because English lacks the precision that a programming language has.
Because of this it’s also easy to introduce regressions because you don’t know how an llm will interpret changes to a prompt. Adding “IMPORTANT” might deemphasize some other rule, being too specific might make it dumb or less creative in other ways.
In code it’s deterministic, with llms it’s probabilistic.
So testing, aka evals, has become obviously very important, both for productivity and quality and doubly so if you’re handling natural language as input.
The actual agent code itself is quite trivial, prompts and functions, but having it work consistently and optimally for your input set is the bulk of the work, I think. 11 replies
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This was a perverse distortion of incentives, and a key reason @GaryGensler must never be christened as a hero, even among crypto skeptics. Everything that happened in crypto was in part a response, part compliance part rebellion, to these pressures.
Over the last year, we have been entering a new order. Now, the most powerful people in the world are cheering on the idea of anyone creating tokens for anything, at any scale.
And so now is the time to talk about the difference between sugar-high short-term fun that is unwise to recommend to newbies, and long-term fulfillment and wealth-building. It is not about "fun is bad", it is about the equivalent of modern hyperaddictive cellphone games, versus chess or World of Warcraft.
Now is the time to talk about how large-scale political coins cross a further line: they are not just sources of fun, whose harm is contained to mistakes made by voluntary participants, they are vehicles for unlimited political bribery, including from foreign nation states.
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Reposting a note comparing some aspects of the current crypto space to weed that I made on the other app:
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Ten years ago, to many weed represented freedom, and rebellion against sclerotic old order that denied self-sovereignty over our bodies. Then, weed became legalized, and "official".
On that day, I remember my personal interest in weed dropping by > 2x overnight.
And since then, public discourse is moving toward a balanced view of weed: it is much less harmful than alcohol and smoking, and has valuable medical uses, but it is also far from harmless, especially in its modern corporate hyper-optimized versions.
Crypto finance is similar. In the old order, @GaryGensler created a regime where tokens that give investors clear indication of what their rights are and where their revenue comes from is a "security", but obfuscated "governance tokens" are potentially in the clear.
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