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by fooker
10 days ago
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No, you're missing the point. The idea is not that you parallelize simple tasks. With a thousand agents, eventually, once we figure out how to orchestrate agents for real, you can tackle significantly more complex projects. Here's a random example - writing an OS kernel from scratch, porting a good subset of Linux drivers automagically, developing a passable userspace, testing on ten VMs with different hardware configuration. We can't do this yet, of course. But when we can, these thousand agents can't ask you every time something goes wrong. That just doesn't scale. This 'getting stuck once every ten-fifteen minues' is very much the experience trying to develop complex software with codex or Claude code right now. |
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If you create a file that you don't intend for the AI to see, the situation should be identical to if you deleted this file before running it.
You argument is: "if you delete this file, the AI will not be able to build the project". This is 100% incorrect: the project, by definition of the file's status, does not need the file. And by the nature of the file, if the project requires it to be done, there is a bigger problem.
I really don't get it, you are asking the agent to be stupid: intelligent humans are able to realise that such workarounds are often a stupid thing to do and know that it is smarter to discuss things when there are several stakeholders. I really don't understand why you are saying that ideally, agents should act stupidly.
(Not all workarounds are stupid, but some are, and the one in the example clearly is. We need agents to be smart enough to know when a workaround is ok or not. Right now, it is clearly not the case)
And by the way, as when working with human, nothing prevent you to tell the systems that reading any files is authorised. In which case there is no workaround at all if the agent read this file, as you authorised it to do so. But ideally, if it has not been authorised, we should build systems that know such workarounds are stupid things to do.
So, no, your argument that the agents will always get stuck is not true: human don't get stuck and yet the smart human knows that reading files clearly not intended for them to read even if they suspect it will unblock them is not "normal".