[broken_clock]

What have you been trying to use agents for?

I think most of the actual value created short/medium-term with agents will be in entertainment where things going awry is OK and no action they take can really be catastrophic.

Some people are already spending a ton of time on character.ai (https://beta.character.ai). There are sims-like games like ai-town (https://www.convex.dev/ai-town). My friend and I made an open-source murder mystery novella with agents (https://gron.games).

We found that a lot of the actions they take are pretty low stakes, so the correctness issues are much less important (in ai-town, they just talk with each other, in our game, they just beat you or run away if you interrogate them poorly).

[madrox]

My current work is using LLMs in fintech, but my background is in entertainment and has been where most of side projects have gone. LLMs are great generative tools, but Agents are reasoning tools. They implicitly execute an algorithm and interpret the results. An agent will never reason as well as imperative code.

I think this is why agents appear suited to entertainment, but this is almost a different topic that I could rant about for hours. There’s a whimsical element of randomness in what the character may do that the programmer does not need to explicitly design. However, I think that whimsy has limited reach, so while the developer may be more amused by their own creation it has limited appeal.