Agents Should Write Code, Not JSON(blog.sshh.io)

2 pointsby sshh123 hours ago2 comments

gnabgib3 hours ago
You're over doing the self promotion, perhaps you could review the guidelines, specificly:
> Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Show us things you're curious about!
- sshh122 hours ago
  ack thanks -- didn't realize this was against the guidelines
techblueberry3 hours ago
I’m kind of curious about this:
“ Long-horizon tasks: We are increasingly solving tasks that take hours of human equivalent time. Agents are now able to maintain capability even as the context window fills with thousands of tool calls. The human-equivalent time-horizon continues to grow”
Because the most efficient humans don’t do this, they have short cycle times. This “agents can operate without intervention” always felt like an anti-pattern to me.
- sshh123 hours ago
  Youre right and there are some assumptions being made here around the agent having enough context to work on a task without interrupts (e.g. team review, asking questions, etc).
  Typically human equivalent time is based on a single person given all the potential information they need up front (which is not today how a lot of work is done).