You are missing the point here. The LLM is just the “reasoning engine” now. its corpus of facts are meaningless and shouldn’t really be relied upon for anything. But in conjunction with a tool calling parametric process, what you described is now trivially doable.
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash
by darksaints on Friday April 18, 2025 @12:33PM
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That’s all fine and dandy, but if you google anything related to llm agents, you get 1000 answers to 100 questions, companies hawking their new “visual programming” agent composers, and a ton of videos of douchebags trying to be the Steve Jobs of AI. The concept I’m sure is fine, but execution of agentic anything is still the Wild Wild West and nobody knows what they’re really doing.
Indeed there is a mountain of snake oil out there at this point, but the underlying concepts are extremely simple, and can be implemented directly without frameworks.
I generally point people to Anthropic's seminal blog post on the topic: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/building-effective-age...
Re:Gemini 2.5 Flash
by MetaWhirledPeas on Friday April 18, 2025 @02:14PM
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> You are missing the point here.
I'm just discussing the GP's topic of casual use. Casual use implies heading over to an already-hosted prompt and typing in questions. Implementing my own 'agentic process' does not sound very casual to me.
> Implementing my own 'agentic process' does not sound very casual to me.
It really is though. This can be as simple as using Claude desktop with a web search tool.
This was my experience as well.
Gemini performing the best on coding tasks, while giving underwhelming responses on recent news.
While Grok was OK for coding tasks, but being linked to X, provided best response on recent events.
It's probably great for lots of things but it doesn't seem very good for recent news. I asked it about recent accusations around xAI and methane gas turbines and it had no clue what I was talking about. I asked the same question to Grok and it gave me all sorts of details.