Agents are all the hype right now, especially...

Agents are all the hype right now, especially with OpenAI's GPT-4o announcement last week. While I'm excited about them, too, there's been an overhype cycle happening, and I hope there's no major implosion as a result." "The hype comes from the fact that while agents can be very powerful and seemingly magical in a number of use cases, it takes nontrivial effort to establish these use cases. " "" "What's especially exciting is that as more of these use cases are proven, there will be ever more reuse in the various pieces needed for these agent networks. To that effect, I'm very excited to be at the forefront of this developing area, as there will be compounding benefits for starting early!" "" "Sentitrac is definitely starting early here, and you might be surprised as to the first use case: having an agent control a Mac Mini we use as a server to perform specific operations we don't perform in the cloud! So far, these actions have been scheduled, and maintenance has been relatively manual. However, having an agent on the machine that can respond to messages (sent from potentially another agent!) in its queue will enable the automation of actions I've otherwise been doing manually." "" "You might be thinking: why do you even run a Mac Mini at your home for Sentitrac? Well, that'll be a story for another time; perhaps an agent will be able to answer that soon 😉

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