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deadbabeyesterday at 11:45 PM3 repliesview on HN

This is not that impressive, there are numerous examples of browsers for training data to reference.


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simonwtoday at 12:18 AM

I don't buy this.

It implies that the agents could only do this because they could regurgitate previous browsers from their training data.

Anyone who's watched a coding agent work will see why that's unlikely to be what's happening. If that's all they were doing, why did it take three days and thousands of changes and tool calls to get to a working result?

I also know that AI labs treat regurgitation of training data as a bug and invest a lot of effort into making it unlikely to happen.

I recommend avoiding the temptation to look at things like this and say "yeah, that's not impressive, it saw that in the training data already". It's not a useful mental model to hold.

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embedding-shapetoday at 12:15 AM

Damn, ok, what should I attempt instead, that could impress even you?

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usef-today at 1:49 AM

What would be impressive to you?

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