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It's about the hardest agentic problem that has measurable results and will be adopted (because it's an engineering culture) that I can think of. RunWare have some good insights on this - much of the problem is context layer improvisation and repetition, and the only way out is an awful lot of diagnostic development.

And anything less than 90% accuracy on causal analysis is more work than doing everything by hand.


Yeah the context is the key to make the LLM really useful for oncall. But honestly the SRE agent companies today are trying to keep users in their platforms, not focusing on solving the context problem. That's what I saw.


I am a middle aged man who lives on a sailing boat. A decade in early stage / founding without an exit that's closer to a car crash. Still trying, I don't have the temperament for consulting or corporate.


> I am a middle aged man who lives on a sailing boat.

literally my goal. hopefully we can meet up on the strait of malaca at some point


Unironically, living on a boat and working on my own thing is my dream right now.


There's gotta be a ton of people in their 20s working remotely and living on a boat right now. They don't have to bust their ass like an entrepreneur either. They're just normal employees.

What is it with boats anyway?


They are RVs for the water. Pull up anchor and bring your living space with you.


Yes, it is dangerously adjacent to being the trailer trash of the sea.

Having a new deck and topiary does not make it a luxury yacht.


What.


WHAT


What?


A machine for living. I like sailing, it's just very expensive and time consuming..


I would really like to see more people down my prompt engineering rabbit hole of trying to use ontology / compilation tricks to produce prompts from models rather than curating text. I have this working pretty well for complex tool interaction, without a JSON schema or template in sight.

Believe it or not, agents can run things like this:

e3{p13=e4(p14), p38=$} returns [e3] · Incremental collaboration signal (what changed and when). Poll to stay current; acknowledge so the server can advance your cursor · optional params: p38


Yes but when I go there as a Europoor I still feel like Borat.


An awful lot of problems can in fact be solved by 'more code' in fact. People seem to straw man this in terms of product feature surface.

A lot of places skip creation and maintenance of decent observability - that's code.

We can now easily use advanced, code heavy testing techniques like property testing - code.

We can create environmental simulations to speed up and improve integration testing - code.

We can lift up internal abstraction levels, replace boiler plate with frameworks, DSLs - code.


All listed are in service of the product feature surface.


I'm still mad about not being able to buy a phone with an external RF connector.


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