alt Hacker NewsThe gulf is bridgeable. The problem is that a lot of people are building agents without strong enough judgment layers around them. Work that can be verified with reasonable accuracy are the sweet spot right now.
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Avicebron • today at 6:36 PM
How many of these layers are just trying to rediscover/rebuild the idempotence of code?
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> The gulf is bridgeable.
Only with an LLM that's actually at agent-quality.
If "useful chatbot" and "useful agent" are two rungs on a ladder, the rung before them is "useful autocomplete". Autocomplete that only gets the next token right 90% of the time won't give you compiling code.