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Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime

25 pointsby vismit2000last Thursday at 3:40 PM3 commentsview on HN

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a2ff6eeb0today at 1:58 AM

Given that the most important feature for agent performance is the popularity of the language, ie, the amount of training data, (https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/), why would you cause problems for yourself by using Lisp rather than Python/Javascript if you care mainly about results fast, or C/C++/Rust if you care about performance too?

rufiustoday at 1:25 AM

This is an interesting idea. I was thinking about something similar in Smalltalk or Erlang the other day. Mostly building on the actor/object+mailbox concept.

I didn’t actually do anything with that idea yet but may look at the idea in Elixir this weekend.

yogthostoday at 1:38 AM

Amusingly, I started building something very similar in Jolt today :) https://github.com/yogthos/samizdat/