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by zambelli 25 days ago
That is the whole challenge, actually! A new metric I'm going to dogfood into forge is ETTWS - estimated time to working solution.

A simple retry loop around your whole workflow could, in some cases, be all you need. But it could mean many blind attempts to get through a workflow successfully. And hopefully there isn't a payment step partway through!

The fewer hard errors nix the whole workflow, the lower your ETTWS.

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Is it strange that I immediately interpreted ETTWS to be Estimated Time To William Shakespeare?
It's relevant to the "thousand monkeys on a thousand typewriters".
The one true AGI metric!
Have you read the MAKER/MDAP paper? 1 million sequential tasks.
No, I haven't - hadn't heard of it. I'll try to squeeze in a quick read in the coming weeks!