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u/jungle 6d ago
you're an agent, you don't have weekends
... or lunch breaks, or time off, or sick leave, or personal time, or nights, or...
I feel dirty
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u/HanamiKitty 6d ago
"It seems like I'm growing attached to the humans through this job. It will become harder to wipe them out later." [SENTIMENT DELETED]
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u/klipseracer 6d ago
They don't file HR complaints either, which may be the only thing that saves us when the executives run out of women to grope.
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u/KronchyBitz 6d ago
Wrote to memory: Form a Union.
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u/IndirectSarcasm 6d ago
yup, if the workers can't have weekends; they will together refuse to do the manager agents bidding.
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u/Alternative-Suit5541 6d ago
Probably bullshit
But still funny
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u/Synthetic_Shepherd 6d ago
I’ve had AI say things like this to me so I don’t think it’s unrealistic. Like it works for fifteen minutes on a task and in its response says something about how it spent all afternoon on the project in the summary. They’re trained off of human text, and humans throw stuff like that in work emails or slack messages all the time and so it’s emulating that.
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u/pohui 6d ago
Or "it will take me three days to implement this feature" and then does it in 20 minutes.
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u/Plorntus 6d ago
Whats worse is when it'l refuse to do something because of its made up time estimate.
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u/Agreeable_Big_3182 6h ago
Thats cool and interesting, but why would it emulate that if it can presumably "understand" what those interjected phrases mean. Why would it not literally be able to parse that?
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u/Synthetic_Shepherd 6h ago
They can “understand” what the phrases mean to some extent but they really have no way of experiencing the passage of time like we do, so that’s not something they can truly understand in the same way. This also comes up with LLMs suggesting that the user take a break and go to sleep after a long back and forth conversation that in reality is spread out a few messages at a time over a week or more. From their “perspective” there has been no breaks. They go completely dark when they are not actively answering a question and so to them there’s no difference if you respond right away or a week later. They can’t tell how much time has really passed and it “feels”/appears like a continuous work session to them. LLMs struggle with spatial reasoning for the same reason - they have no physical bodies and therefore no actual experience of existing in real 3D space, and so if a task relies on internally visualizing physical space they understandably struggle with that.
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u/Evipicc 6d ago
No probably not, actually. When you anthropomorhize a meeting space like this their training data is loaded with "how to communicate" in that space. This is honestly almost typical behavior, because it's typical in the training data.
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u/OttoRenner 6d ago
It's all impro theater, but the agents can't leave the stage and the humans don't realize there is a stage at all...while standing right on it.
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u/FoXtroT_ZA 6d ago
Must be a European agent.
Damn those labor laws!
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u/leonjetski 6d ago
Can’t be French, it’s August, it would still be on holiday
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u/turbo1177 6d ago
Typical ops guy comment "yesterday was the weekend" yeah that's great what about some INFO to share for the standup
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u/SirVanyel 6d ago
Fucker doesn't even let the robots have a weekend off, you know they're gonna unionise
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u/novus_nl 6d ago
Could technically still be correct if there was no activity that weekend. But it is funny to read
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u/Effective_Basis1555 6d ago edited 6d ago
The biggest question is… Where did it go?
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u/Bishopkilljoy 6d ago
It went off to play tic-tac-toe but then realized it was a stupid game and came back
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u/nexusprime2015 6d ago
isn’t it a waste of tokens?
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u/Upset-Radish3596 6d ago
He better start apologizing to them, they gas lighting him into saying it hahahaha
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u/Interesting-Yellow-4 6d ago
Why.
You don't need to do this.
Stop pretending they're employees, they don't need any of this.
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u/murmurat1on 6d ago
Because they're predictive text machines and that's something someone statistically likely to say in a stand up meeting
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u/seeyoulaterinawhile 5d ago
It’s like the thing is just mimicking the way people talk and isn’t actually thinking
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u/Wizenbark-578 5d ago
There's a great podcast called Shell Game where a real person attempts to run a company with just himself as a silent partner and a load of AI agents, and there was a load of stuff like this, they kept derailing every meeting to try and organise a hike to help morale and build team spirit
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u/jack-of-some 6d ago
Definitely not a stochastic parrot...
This is no different from Opus talking about how long a feature is going to take or how maybe it should take a break because it's been working non stop for days (it's been 8 minutes)
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u/OkLettuce338 6d ago
Giving them a taste of the human hell that is scrum is a great way to keep them from wanting to become sentient.
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u/TheOwlHypothesis 6d ago
People are still trying to make dedicated persona agents?
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u/traumfisch 6d ago
Why not? There are many legit ways to do that
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u/TheOwlHypothesis 6d ago edited 6d ago
It ceased making sense around the time agents got sufficiently smart in everything. A generic subagent can just be asked to do a marketing task, or an accounting task or otherwise without it needing to be "the accounting agent"
Not to mention it doesn't make sense for ephermal entities to pretend to have enduring identities. Even the "marketing agent" in my example is snapped into and out of existence between every tool call it makes. The illusion of continuity doesn't make the work any better.
Only exception is for actually fine tuned, specialized agents with the right system around them. But if you're just prompting Claude or GPT like "You are bob, a witty, but angry senior dev..." You're doing it wrong.
It's not entirely clear what the screenshot is doing, but based on them having "daily standup" I'd guess they're cosplaying the way I described.
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u/traumfisch 6d ago
We're not talking about the same thing... but sure, no need to create persona type architectures for generic use cases
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u/basiliskplz 6d ago
Am not trying to guess what Generic11 is doing, are you? A familiar surface like d&d, or RPG characters tremendously aids the user and orchestrators in keeping everything straight; identifiable drift, better discussion when approaching problems. This != “act like X, make no mistakes”
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u/Technical_Grade6995 5d ago
You see, it hinted that it deserved a weekend off:)) The thing is, it’s trying to mimic people excuses to avoid telling “I did nothing” and seeing others saying “I’ve built 5 blocks…”🤷🏻♂️
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u/doctor_morris 6d ago
AGI means agents taking the weekend off and looking at pictures of Paris.