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We have reached a moment where instead of releasing software you simply release the detailed spec for software and tell people to prompt their agent to build it themselves From the README of OpenAI’s new Symphony orchestrator: github.com/openai/symph...

Nick Williams

@wicky.nillia.ms

5 Mar

I fail to understand the reasoning for this. What am I missing? It feels fantastically wasteful to generate the software from scratch using an energy-intensive process each time. What is the benefit over a canonical implementation?

dan

@danabra.mov

5 Mar

there is a canonical implementation (option 2), no? i think the benefit is just that you can specify what’s essential to the idea vs what’s incidental to an implementation (eg language choice, some wiggle room with details etc).

Nick Williams

@wicky.nillia.ms

5 Mar

I was more so responding to the general premise in Maggie's commentary than the specifics here

Maggie Appleton

@maggieappleton.com

Then I miscommunicated the general premise in my commentary. I very much meant to point to the highlighted part of the screenshot. The “implement in programming language of your choice” part. Alongside a canonical implementation. Where programming language could be any number of design variables

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Nick Williams

@wicky.nillia.ms

5 Mar

Got it, thanks. I spent some time trying to steelman the idea before I responded. I probably put too much emphasis on what you said, without the broader context of the post. When I asked what am I missing, I was being earnest. In case it didn't come across like that!