Try constructing reusable components out of what you are doing instead of building everything up from basic building blocks. This also allows more concrete testing of individual parts and then if you want to change the look you can change it in one place and have it apply everywhere.

Agentic development doesn’t mean “throw all what we learned out of the window”, the same practices that helped speed up and improve quality of work of humans also helps agents. In fact, the multiplier is even bigger. You will notice it in development speed and reduced cost due to avoiding churn.

Jev came in, and added that magic of "you dont need to train your classifier or determine the weights" if you dont want to, and just get the classified answer out. I think that's what is making people see this with a glitter in their eyes.

Like even 5 minutes of tinkering captures why this isn't anymore like BERT or any past classification model than ChatGPT is like those old Markov Chain generators, yet folks cannot shut up about how this is nothing new.

Absolutely scary and makes me wonder how much of the field is just people super confidently discrediting otherwise promising/interesting directions for development for a cheap dunk!

So you have more flexibility to get on with building, evolve your business logic etc

Yeah, it could. The most obvious usage would be to have local fast cheap "feedback" / "control" over a slower more expensive agent (i.e. cc / codex / opencode). Things like "goals" could now be split from a long prompt into "actions" and "verifiers". Where for each action you also produce a verifier. Then after each action you run the verifier w/ this kind of "universal classifier" and decide if the step was done correctly, if it needs follow-up and so on.

Example: implement auth in this repo -> llm_plan() -> for item in plan generate_verifier() -> for item in plan implement() ; verify() ; accept() / followup().

Verifiers could be something like this. take a plan item as input, generate classification questions that might verify the task "is this following project conventions?" | "is this touching files from other tasks?", etc.

You can do that with LLMs, but some things might become cheaper / faster. And you can pretty much use it to check against an ever growing list of conventions. Yours or project specific.

For coding agents it'd only be useful in a subset of situations. E.g. you could imagine using one to classify bash tool calls into safe and unsafe for example.

As a corollary, the output classes can be any set, rather than needing to be set before training.