@sydneyrunkle: people want to build agents, and they want it to be easy even more important, it should be easy for your agents to impr…
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People want to build agents easily and have them improve over time; automating the 'hill climbing' loop is hard but has high ROI.
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people want to build agents, and they want it to be easy
even more important, it should be easy for your agents to improve over time
that’s what the 4th loop (“hill climbing”) enables. automating the hill climbing part a) is hard b) has ridiculously high ROI
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