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simianwordstoday at 6:55 AM3 repliesview on HN

I remember when I tried to set something up with the ChatGPT equivalent like "notify me only if there are traffic disruptions in my route every morning at 8am" and it would notify me every morning even if there was no disruption.


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theredbeardtoday at 6:58 AM

This is because for some reason all agentic systems think that slapping cron on it is enough, but that completely ignores decades of knowledge about prospective memory. Take a look at https://theredbeard.io/blog/the-missing-memory-type/ for a write-up on exactly that.

alexhanstoday at 9:37 AM

Why not set your own evals and something like pi-mono for that? https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono/

You'll define exactly what good looks like.

scottmcdottoday at 7:11 AM

Me too. It doesn't have ability to alert only on true positive. I has to also alert on true negative. So dumb

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