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Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by nickalaso on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:28AM (#50454564)
IMO, his primary mistake was not turning the agent swarm on a proper research task that exhaustively determined whether it had been discovered or not.
Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by epistasis on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @10:55AM (#50454873)
Well the Google SWE didn't make a mistake, the media made a mistake in misreporting it, and we at HN are making a mistake by giving it undue attention.

We are reading this article because it continues and amplifies the AI hype machine, and no other reason. If a motivated amateur had made the discovery through any other means, and motivated amateurs do things like this all the time, then it would never have gotten an article, never shown up on the HN feed.

Re:Google SWE points 48 AI agents at NASA Lidar, finds unmap... by biggc on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @12:07PM (#50455744)
And then another agent swarm to make sure that the research swarm didn't hallucinate any false positive matches!

LLMs are great, and they keep getting better, but I'm so tired of current shortcomings being blamed on the prompter "holding it wrong".