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Call me a conspiracy theorist, but this, combined with the extremely embarassing way Claude is playing Pokemon, makes me feel this is an effort by AI companies to make LLMs look bad - setting up the hype cycle for the next thing they have in the pipeline.

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The next thing in the pipeline is definitely agents, and making the underlying tech look bad won't help sell that at all.

Agents as they are right now is literally just the LLM calling itself in a loop + having the ability to use tools/interact with their environment. I don't know if there's anything profoundly disruptive cooking in that space.

You're not a conspiracy theorist, you're just recognizing that the reality doesn't match the hype. It's boring and not fun but in this situation the answer is almost always that the hype is wrong, not the reality.

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