> It's simultaneously the obvious next step

As it has been over three years ago, when that was originally published.

I'm continuously surprised both by how fast the models themselves evolve, and how slow their use patterns are. We're still barely playing with the patterns that were obvious and thoroughly discussed back before GPT-4 was a thing.

Right now, the whole industry is obsessed with "agents", aka. giving LLMs function calls and limited control over the loop they're running under. How many years before the industry will get to the point of giving LLMs proper control over the top-level loop and managing the context, plus an ability to "shell out" to "subagents" as a matter of course?

Am I the only one who saw in the prompt:

> ${SUGESTION}

And recognized it wouldn't do anything because of a typo? Alas, my kind is not long for this world...