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butlikeyesterday at 4:13 PM3 repliesview on HN

No,

This could take up to 30 minutes for subagents to complete. So you go to the store, but the milk is already sold out. Walmart will ship you the milk if you pay the S&H. You drive back home and check the terminal. "Completed in 6m37s."

is the worst timeline. That's close though


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scubboyesterday at 4:30 PM

Yeah - by comparison with this, "a computer takes over some digital work, thus permitting me to get things done in the real world" is positively benign!

poloticsyesterday at 7:58 PM

why would the terminal not say "completed in 30 minutes" even if it's only really 5 minutes of real work and 25 minutes of thumbs twiddling? If your agentic-harness provider is in bed or just the same as your LLM provider, that is the rational `best` case scenario/timeline. for them.

marcosdumayyesterday at 6:53 PM

Well... Your example is way more likely than the GP's LLM getting the facts right.