alt Hacker NewsI don't understand. You're highlighting a project that implements an "agent" as a counterargument to my claim that the bulk of improvements are from "agents"?
Sure, the models themselves have improved, but not by the same margins from a couple of years ago. E.g. the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-4 was far greater than the jump from GPT-4 to GPT-5. Currently we're seeing moderate improvements between each release, with "agents" taking up center stage. Only corporations like Google are still able to squeeze value out of hyperscale, while everyone else is more focused on engineering.
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They're pointing out that the "agent" is just 100 lines of code with a single tool. That means the model itself has improved, since such a bare bones agent is little more than invoking the model in a loop.
I think the point here is that it’s not adding agents on top but the improvements in the models allow the agentic flow.