I don't understand what the fuck Agentic AI is and how it's different from normal AI, and at this point I'm kinda afraid to ask ...
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@JessTheUnstill It's the astonishing innovation of *running a thing in a loop and letting it use other software* 馃く馃ぁ
@sue Oh right, the thing where a guy burned like $1k when his bot spent all night long asking if it's daytime yet.
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @sue@glasgow.social Please, please. As a couple of years ago I wrote an agentic framework (before the surrounding landscape got rather better defined) I can tell you that you're missing the true depth and complexity here.
It's a loop that runs so slowly and unreliably you need to persist steps to have a hope of it running successfully, and which needs subloops to repeatedly tell it to try again when it attempts to use other software until it gives valid input. Then you rewrite the stack trace so that only the correct trigger is stored in the hope you don't run out of effective memory before actually doing whatever it is you're trying to do. It's so much more than a loop!
@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange @sue@glasgow.social Turns out that I could now right some pretty stunning work flow software for managing processes that happen at 'real world' rather than digital speeds, though. Getting computers to run reliably and without bankrupting you at the speed of "Bob from finance answers an email" is actually quite an interesting puzzle.
