This is the story imo. For a large percent of people, basically everyone born after 1980, technology has always reduced in price and increased in capabilities over their entire life. If sustained, which if you start with the Xbox price increase it probably already is, this is a secular change in the market for technology.
Yeah, given everything I'm not entirely surprised - I'm just curious if this is literally the first time a console has gone up in price post-release, or if I just wasn't paying attention the other times.
At my new job, I was assigned to improve processes with AI.
My first thought was, well agents seem nice, but I think, AI workflows are a better bet. However, I don't really understood AI or agents in depth and felt like I was just "doing things the old way" and removing flexibility from agents was a ridiculous idea.
After some research I got the impression that I was right. A well defined workflow and scope is just what's needed for AI. It's cheaper and more consistent. It probably even makes the whole thing run well with non-SOTA models.
Written 1.5 years ago. Anthropic would not advertise this stance today.
I'm much more agreeable with that type of LLM workflow. Running "agents" with monolithic "harness" for long time horizon tasks seems wasteful, unecessary but probably super appealing to lazy people.
Not in my experience. AI exposes the truth that agile as it is practised is a huge waste of time. All the bullshit ceremonies and short sprints were designed to get code squeezed out faster, no matter if the code actually addressed the goals of the project. The stupidity of agile is in its iteration speed since you can be handed utter crap, implement it to hit your story points and find out the drooling shitgibbon who wrote the specs phoned it in so your work is now wasted. Rinse, repeat.
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