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soccernee··on Building an internal agent: Code-driven vs. LLM-driven workflows
Likely because it's just easier to see if the LLM solution works. When it doesn't, then it makes more sense to move into deterministic workflows (which isn't all the hard to build to be honest with Claude Code).

It's the old principle of avoiding premature optimization.

soccernee··on The Agent2Agent Protocol (A2A)
This looks a lot like AGNTCY: https://agntcy.org/

A quick scan of the "partners" for A2A includes many of the same groups that helped launch AGNTCY. Either they jumped ship or they're teaming up with everyone. The Google announcement does read like marketing hype, though, so it remains to be seen how functional it is.

Let the inter-agent standard wars begin.

soccernee··on GitHub Models: A new generation of AI engineers building on GitHub
So the tl;dr is they're now competing directly with Hugging Face?
soccernee··on Meta Llama 3
Olmo from AI2. They released the model weights plus training data and training code.

link: https://allenai.org/olmo

soccernee··on Why is this idiot running my engineering org?
Same for me. I feel like the essay makes some good points about the type of people who gravitate towards middle management, but I'm unable to make the connections myself because the essay jumps around. I'm still confused -- is Matt Cutts the "idiot running my engineering org"?
soccernee··on Uber Bookings Now Down 80%
Does this mean Uber will lose less money than it did in previous quarters?
soccernee··on Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco
Thanks for sharing. Just wanted to add that I too think Dharma Bums is Kerouac's best book, I really enjoyed reading every page.