Natural-language messages between LLM agents are an architectural anti-pattern (novaberg.de) 21 points by ClausVomBerg 2mo ago ↗ HN
[–] D2OQZG8l5BI1S06 2mo ago ↗ The post is AI-written, so I did not read it. But based on title and abstract I'll have to disagree.The native content LLMs understand is text. They were literally trained on it. They much prefer it to any arbitrary structure you could come up with.We're used to think computers prefer content that is structured and binary etc; but with LLMs that changed. [–] [dead] ClausVomBerg 2mo ago ↗ [dead] [–] saghm 2mo ago ↗ If only we had spent any time as an industry coming up with structured formats for text... [–] halJordan 2mo ago ↗ The crazy thing is that you can contribute literally nothing because you chose to be totally ignorant and only act on your perceived hobby horse.And you're the same person who would tell me that ai is bad because, what? It might do the same thing you're proud you just did? Hallucinate some bs?
[–] saghm 2mo ago ↗ If only we had spent any time as an industry coming up with structured formats for text...
[–] halJordan 2mo ago ↗ The crazy thing is that you can contribute literally nothing because you chose to be totally ignorant and only act on your perceived hobby horse.And you're the same person who would tell me that ai is bad because, what? It might do the same thing you're proud you just did? Hallucinate some bs?
[–] binyu 2mo ago ↗ > It makes individual agents untestable because their inputs and outputs are stringsStrings can't be valid test vectors? Large language model are highly non-deterministic by design, no matter what. [–] [dead] ClausVomBerg 2mo ago ↗ [dead]
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 26.4 ms ] threadThe native content LLMs understand is text. They were literally trained on it. They much prefer it to any arbitrary structure you could come up with.
We're used to think computers prefer content that is structured and binary etc; but with LLMs that changed.
And you're the same person who would tell me that ai is bad because, what? It might do the same thing you're proud you just did? Hallucinate some bs?
Strings can't be valid test vectors? Large language model are highly non-deterministic by design, no matter what.