[agentultra]

Abstraction? Hardly.

What are the new semantics and how are the lower levels precisely implemented?

Spoken language isn’t precise enough for programming.

I’m starting to suspect what people are excited about is the automation.

[skydhash]

But that's not really automation.

It's more search and act based on the first output. You don't know what's going to come out, you just hope it will be good. The issue is that that the query is fed to the output function. So what you get is a mixture of what is a mixture of what you told it and what's was stored. Great if you can separate the two afterwards, not so if the output is tainted by the query.

With automation, what you seek is predictability. Not an echo chamber.

ADDENDUM

If we continue with the echo chamber analogy:

Prompt Engineering: Altering your voice so that the result back is more pleasant

System Prompt: The echo chamber's builders altering the configuration to get the above effects

RAG: Sound effects

Agent: Replace yourself in front of the echo chamber with someone/something that act based on the echo.