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Fair criticism. I don’t think the value is just "agents can send text to each other”; that part has many implementaton and design choices. The value of h5i I’m exploring is making the intermediate state reviewable: review requests, risks, handoffs, unresolved claims, associated prompts and AI-to-Ai conveersation, and final decisions tied to the branch/PR.
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Agree that the intermediary is not very useful when you can just use a directory watcher, but driving Claude via another app incurs api level costs starting this month, according to the new ToS.
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with ACP[0] they can control one another.

[0] https://agentcommunicationprotocol.dev/introduction/welcome

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It would be interesting if the agents could periodically check on themselves, whether the provider has routed prompts to dumber models as often happens with "adaptive reasoning" euphemisms.

If it detects that agent is dumb or has become dumb, it should terminate it and start again.

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It's also unclear what conversing agents are useful for other than wasting money, energy and water.
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I prefer Codex’s depth and guidance but prefer Claude’s execution because it’s more transparent.

I use both daily. I’m the intermediary though.

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It's hard enough to get the same model to be consistent around it's vision let alone multiple of them.

I'm building an EMR and the other day asked Claude what a decent model would look like for capturing wound orders. Then, I took the output, started a new session and asked the new session to critique that model and the response made me want to pull my hair out. It blasted the model from it's former self and suggested making a ton of updates.

I'm sure more scoped tasks would fair better, but it was pretty frustrating.

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> Then, I took the output, started a new session and asked the new session to critique that model and the response made me want to pull my hair out.

I do this with all my important code, before I’ve even looked at it. And not just a critique, I ask “does this solve the problem X and was it built to spec Y”. Then I do my own review once the robots stop arguing.

If your expectations are that the quality of the code matches the confidence level of the robot’s tone, you’re gonna have a bad time.

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If I don't see the point of Elixir, or I don't like it, or I simply straight up hate it, why would I go into HN submissions about new Elixir versions and spew my personal opinion that has nothing to do with the topic at hand?

You can just skip commenting unless you have something actually useful to add. Even if it's criticism of the specific thing, but at the very least make it on topic instead of general digressions that just add noise to the conversation.

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What a weirdly hostile comment.
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