If I may, I think that's actually part of the point, and (at least for me) part of the lesson.
I read him as saying that part of the miracle to him is that he has experienced something that makes him realize that it's a lot harder than it sounds to be loving and kind with no (or few) conditions, and to open your home and life to a stranger.
For me, a lesson of this piece is actually the juxtaposition of the relative ease of -accepting- help and the strange difficulty of -offering- help. It's worth reflecting on, and imo much more relatable.
I'm reminded of a friend who talks about primary and secondary wants. He wants to eat a burger, but he wants to want to eat a salad. Maybe KK wants to want to help people, and the challenge for him is connecting the dots.
I don't think it's obvious but in my own experiments with this it's things like permissions that can get a little hairy. It's all doable and IMO preferable to have an agent-as-daemon. aider is kind of like this.
What's 'this', do you mean the command pattern being described? If so, yes - I've used it to great effect, if the code around it is designed properly. It's even amenable to evals if you can write the LLM call as a function that operates on some state:
(document, input) -> command
(document, command) -> document'
# assert something about document' relative to document
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Without imputing any actual intention to the author, I agree with your points on tone. It feels focused on optics, not outcomes.
It's one thing to say that you want to get things done. It's another to say you want to be _seen_ as someone who gets things done.
Again, I don't intend to mind read here, and I think the author actually has some really good data gathering ideas. But the language definitely smacks of political motivation, which some folks (myself included) find off-putting.
hey hn, I'm the lead engineer on this project. This was a super fun feature to build, and was incredibly challenging at a technical level.
Lots of fun stuff to figure out, from wrangling structured data, working around limited context sizes, and figuring out how to even write down sensible metrics to determine how well the models are doing.
I read him as saying that part of the miracle to him is that he has experienced something that makes him realize that it's a lot harder than it sounds to be loving and kind with no (or few) conditions, and to open your home and life to a stranger.
For me, a lesson of this piece is actually the juxtaposition of the relative ease of -accepting- help and the strange difficulty of -offering- help. It's worth reflecting on, and imo much more relatable.
I'm reminded of a friend who talks about primary and secondary wants. He wants to eat a burger, but he wants to want to eat a salad. Maybe KK wants to want to help people, and the challenge for him is connecting the dots.