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by WhrRTheBaboons 82 days ago
that does not seem like something you need an 'autonomous' agent for.
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Sohcahtoa82 82 days ago
What would you propose as an alternative?

Anything not relying on an LLM likely means having to write bespoke scripts. That's not really worth the time, especially when you want summaries and not having to skim things yourself.

Going from doing it manually on a regular basis to an autonomous agent turns a frequent 5-15 minute task into a 30 second one.

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mvdtnz 82 days ago
> Anything not relying on an LLM likely means having to write bespoke scripts.

The very first line in your readme is "CivicClaw is a set of scripts and prompts" though? And almost the entire repo is a bunch of python scripts under a /scripts folder.

I looked at one randomly chosen script (scripts/sf_rec_park.py) and it's 549 lines of Python to fetch and summarise data that is available on an RSS feed ( https://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/ViewPublisher.php?view_id=... )

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Gracana 82 days ago
Parent isn't saying that bespoke scripts are bad, just that it's not worth their time to write them. The value of the bot is that it can do that for you.
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butlike 82 days ago
They've created a public bulletin board for themselves, like a café's blackboard, or a city telephone pole.
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