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AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 4 days agoThere’s no such thing as “agents”, there must always be a human in the loop, they don’t just create code from nothing. Both in the sense of a human needing to prompt the LLM, and in the fact that they’re trained on human created code. “Agents” is just a buzzword made by tech CEOs and MBAs to make the general population think they’re doing more than they really are.
nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 4 days ago
Up until ~6 months ago I would have agreed with you, and elaborated that “Agents are just LLMs in a loop with a text file scratchpad”
That’s… still true in a way, but honestly so many people have put so much cleverness into managing that process, that I have to say, yes, Cline or Codex with GPT or Claude Code behind them are absolutely “agentic”.
I can point them to a problem report and our company documentation and… an ever-increasing percentage of the time, I wind up with a problem description, a patch that fixes it, unit, coverage, and stress tests, and (if relevant) updated docs.