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Shawn Wang: prediction

27 Sept 2024 Latent Space Language Agents: From Reasoning to Acting

“I think that's the main learning I have from Devin. They cracked that. Actually, there was no foundational planning breakthrough.”

— Shawn Wang

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Shawn Wang
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27 Sept 2024
Publisher
Latent Space

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…There's more. Okay, I'm not up to date. Yeah, I think they also did a good job on ACI. I think that's the main learning I have from Devin. They cracked that. Actually, there was no foundational planning breakthrough. The planner is actually pretty simple, but ACI that they broke through on. I think making the tool good and reliable is probably like 90% of the whole agent. Once the tool is actually good, then the agent design can be much, much simpler. On the other hand, if the tool is bad, then no matter how much you put into the agent design, planning or search or whatever, it's still going to be trash. Yeah, I'd argue the same. Same with like context and instructions. Like, yeah, go hand in hand.…

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