[verdverm]

If we're talking about emulating users, sure, but this is supposed to be a tool that helps me get my job done.

If (i.e.) you dig into how something like copilot works, they do dumb things like ask^ the LLM to do glob matching after a file read (to pull in more instructions)... just use a damn glob library instead of a non-deterministic and known to be unreliable method

^ it's just a table in the overall context, so "asking" is a bit anthropomorphizing

[cluckindan]

I would consider a bunch of ”dumb/power user” agents more useful than coding agents. The more they fail to use my software, the better!

[zahlman]

> ^ it's just a table in the overall context, so "asking" is a bit anthropomorphizing

I interpreted GP as just saying that you are already anthropomorphizing too much by supposing that the models "find" new ways to fail (as if trying to defy you).

[verdverm]

most humans do not seek out ways to defy after a certain age

I did not mean to imply active choice by "find", more that they are reliably non-deterministic and have a hard time sticking to, or easy time ignoring, the instructions I did write