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by Lionga 297 days ago
Isn't an "agent" not just hallucinations layered on top of other random hallucinations to create new hallucinations?
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tptacek 297 days ago
No, that's exactly what an agent isn't. What makes an agent an agent is all the not-LLM code. When an agent generates Golang code, it runs the Go compiler, which is in the agent's architecture an extension of the agent. The Go compiler does not hallucinate.
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Lionga 297 days ago
The most common "agent" is an letting an LLM run a while loop (“multi-step agent”) [1]

[1] https://huggingface.co/docs/smolagents/conceptual_guides/int...

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tptacek 297 days ago
That's not how Claude Code works (or Gemini, Cursor, or Codex).
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