[bravetraveler]

I'll talk to the LLM about how stupid all of this is; if you want me productive... I choose the tools, sorry.

Enforce a good diet so we'll finally eat our vegetables, boss. Get out of here. If these are the commonly established boundaries, I'm either gaming it or simply out. Easy choice.

[orangecoffee]

Is there not a higher productivity expectation for you? How are you going to meet those without agents?

[bravetraveler]

I can't say, yet! Hasn't struck. They'd like users, aren't forcing the issue. Very reasonable/measured so far. Should expectations appear [and I were to play along], I maintain they would be sorely disappointed. Simply don't believe we're limited by content generation/consumption.

All beside the point, anyway. I'll worry about meeting agreeable expectations in the next place... where I can renegotiate my side of the terms, too. The work doesn't really call for it, I'm already more productive than my enabled peers. Not pressed, options exist (both internal and external). Competitors more to my liking surely exist. I'm entirely fine failing to meet demands that I don't believe can/should be met. Call me fortunate [and perhaps naive] :)

My 'agents' were called 'pipelines' 20 years ago, they serve us well. The... 'real world' logistics need to be considerably shortened before an agent [or more pipelines] might have any meaningful impact. We have all the code/docs/whatever we might need, and a lot of built-in downtime, so I suspect it's a wash. Moving parts or people to datacenters, for instance.

All that's not to say an LLM can't be useful. They could spare us some shoveling, so to speak. Less work, not necessarily further or faster. Easier. There's not a lot of juice to squeeze and I'm not sure one should be willing [without proper consideration/compensation].