[briian]

I think fine tuning is one of the things that makes verticalised agents so much better than general ones atm.

If agents aren’t specialised then every time they do anything, they have to figure out what to do and they don’t know what data matters, so often just slap entire web pages into their context. General agents use loads of tokens because of this. Vertical agents often have hard coded steps, know what data matters and already know what APIs they’re going to call. They’re far more efficient so will burn less cash.

This also improves the accuracy and quality.

I don't think this effect is as small as people say, especially when combined with the UX and domain specific workflows that verticalised agents allow for.

[triyambakam]

I have not yet heard of vertical agents. Any good resources?

[simonw]

I'm still fuzzy on what people mean when they say "agents".

[triyambakam]

That's because people mean different things. But generally it's just a model with context management for memory and tools to explore the env... I would say Claude Code is an agent