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by bbqfog 313 days ago
AI is so new and so powerful, that we don't really know how to use it yet. The next step is orchestration. LLMs are already powerful but they need to be scaled horizontally. "One shotting" something with a single call to an LLM should never be expected to work. That's not how the human brain works. We iterate, we collaborate with others, we reflect... We've already unlocked the hard and "mysterious" part, now we just need time to orchestrate and network it.
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monkpit 313 days ago
I think you’re right - even if we accept the premise that there’s only room for minor marginal improvements, there’s vast amounts of room for improvement with integrations, mcp, orchestration, prompting, etc. I’m talking mostly about coding agents here but it applies more widely.

It’s a completely new tool, it’s like inventing the internal combustion engine and then going, “well, I guess that’s it, it’s kinda neat I guess.”

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kbelder 313 days ago
I think that's it. Even if there were no improvements with LLMs as they exist today, the integration and usage can still be vastly improved. Right now, we don't have multiple LLM-aware systems communicating, with a standardized information repository.

Right now we have the technology to have an AI observe a room, count the people in it, see what they're doing, observe their mood, and set the lighting to the appropriate level. We just don't have all the sensors and integrations and protocols to manage that. The LLM interfaces with email, your bank, your phone, etc., is crude and clunky. So much more could be done with the LLMs we have now.

(And just to be clear, most of those integrations sound horrible and dystopian. But they're examples.)

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player1234 311 days ago
Powerful but we don't know how to use it? If it is as powerful as all you true believers spout the usefulness would be self evident and that would be the display of its power.

But apparently it is powerful just because you say so, and then something, something ... business model ...

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bbqfog 310 days ago
It does incredible things today that we wouldn't have thought possible 5 years ago.
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