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"Exploring the Potential of a JavaScript Agent"

Jan 8, 2024 - 8:58pmSummary: I need to create a simple JavaScript agent, possibly inspired by Simon Willison's blog, to see how it performs compared to existing solutions like Microsoft's. I'm considering using LangChain, but I'm also thinking about the agent's requirements, including tasks such as recursive summarization, which are well-suited for GPT-3 and could be more cost-effective with a local model. Additionally, I'm contemplating whether directly prompting the agent with instructions will be effective for its operation. On a different note, I observed a driver on the freeway driving at an excessively slow speed of 35 mph, which is concerning.

Transcript: One of the things that I think I need to do tomorrow is implement my own agent. Something probably very basic and referring to I believe it's Simon Willison's blog. Just something stupidly simple in JavaScript and seeing what happens because whatever currently is there I can use Microsoft's thing. I am hesitant to use LangChain but there's got to be something there and I think maybe I do need to enumerate more or less what I expect of the agent. What steps that it might want to do to get there and also what kinds of things generally need to happen like recursive summarization and that kind of thing. That is a very easy GPT-3 task and possibly even a local model which would save on compute significantly. And the other thing that I'm wondering is do I just fucking prompt it in an array to get my answer of I know exactly what it needs to do so I'm just going to tell it and it can figure it out. That guy is going really slow on the freeway. Unnecessarily slow. That was going 35. That's not okay.

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