alt Hacker NewsThis is the part that feels right to me because agents are idiots.
I built a tool that writes (non shit) reports from unstructured data to be used internally by analysts at a trading firm.
It cost between $500 to $5000 per day per seat to run.
It could have cost a lot more but latency matters in market reports in a way it doesn't for software. I imagine they are burning $1000 per day per seat because they can't afford more.
They are idiots, but getting better. Ex: wrote an agent skill to do some read only stuff on a container filesystem. Stupid I know, it’s like a maintainer script that can make recommendations, whatever.
Another skill called skill-improver, which tries to reduce skill token usage by finding deterministic patterns in another skill that can be scripted, and writes and packages the script.
Putting them together, the container-maintenance thingy improves itself every iteration, validated with automatic testing. It works perfectly about 3/4 of the time, another half of the time it kinda works, and fails spectacularly the rest.
It’s only going to get better, and this fit within my Max plan usage while coding other stuff.