Agent Design Is Still Hard

Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard by jfghi on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:42PM (#46017124)

Technologically and mathematically this is all quite interesting. However, I have no desire to ever use an agent and I doubt there are many that will.

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Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard by kvirani on Saturday November 22, 2025 @01:49PM (#46017203)

No desire because you don't need them to optimize anything for yourself, or ?

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Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard by jfghi on Saturday November 22, 2025 @04:04PM (#46018240)

So far the agentic stuff seems focused on shopping. Online shopping is remarkably seamless and optimized for me so the potential productivity gain is not enticing.

I’ve encountered a number of errors dealing with LLMs so would be wary of the results.

I also think there’d be an incentive to enshittify by having vendors pay to get preferential prioritization from the LLM. This could result in worse products being delivered for higher prices.

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Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard by xpe on Saturday November 22, 2025 @08:48PM (#46020017)

> So far the agentic stuff seems focused on shopping.

Where are you getting this impression?

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Re:Agent Design Is Still Hard by blharr on Saturday November 22, 2025 @10:38PM (#46020565)

Have you had issues with LLM agents or when chatting to them one-on-one?

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