George Vines on Nostr: I mentioned here that "pi can build itself", because that's some of the marketing I ...

I mentioned here that "pi can build itself", because that's some of the marketing I hear. I've heard similar claims from other competitors.

But in fact I never liked that some people refer to the software that runs a glorified chatbox to an LLM with access to files on disk an "agent" and then claim that it somehow acts when in fact it's either the human prompting it that acts or, at best, the LLM model itself that "acts".

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Now, if you want to make an allowance for dedicated read/write/edit tools that make the life of the agent easier, then why stop at these three? There are a bunch of other tools that would also make the life of the agent easier, from LSP access to nicer webfetch capabilities, or even the ability to control a headless browser.

Or, if you want to claim that "pi can build itself" then why not say that people have to provide their own read/write/edit tools (which can easily be oneshotted with just bash at first anyway)?