alt Hacker News> However, I think that they’re really worried about is that a person needs to design and implement that stuff… It throws a wet blanket on their insistence that this will replace entire people in entire workflows or even projects, and I just don’t buy it.
I think you are on to something. But I also think this sort of system lends itself to not needing really good LLMs to do impressive things. I've noticed that the quality of a lot of these LLMs just gets worse the more datapoints they need to track. But, if you break it up into smaller and easier to consume chunks all the sudden you need a much less capable LLM to get results comparable or better than the SOTA.
Why pay extra money for Opus 4.7 when you could run Qwen 3.6 35b for free and get similar results?
It is also interesting because you get people with very different use cases arguing about the effectiveness of various models but doing very different things with them.
Its one things for a model to be very clearly instructed to add a REST endpoint to an existing Django app and add a button connected to it on the front vs "Design me a youtube". The smaller models can pretty dependably do the first and fall flat on the second.