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by zkmon 171 days ago
I haven't seen the definition of an agent, in the paper. Do they differentiate agents from generic online chat interfaces?
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senshan 171 days ago
Page 2: We define agentic tools or agents as AI tools integrated into an IDE or a terminal that can manipulate the code directly (i.e., excluding web-based chat interfaces)
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esafak 171 days ago
An agent takes actions. Chat bots only return text.
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zkmon 171 days ago
"takes actions" is automation and its is hardly new. Code was always taking actions over the decades. Interpreting and generating text belongs to chat bots. What's new with agents?
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esafak 170 days ago
Your code only takes actions prescribed by you. The agent does not; it picks the tool. I thought this was too obvious to point out.
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