Hacker News: allmathlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=allmathlHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:19:37 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by allmathl in "Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents"]]>i don't see how improving the source could detriment anyone. The rest is just relationship details. The decent part about relationship details is imprisonment.

]]>Wed, 14 May 2025 22:47:49 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989977allmathlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989977https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989977<![CDATA[New comment by allmathl in "Show HN: Muscle-Mem, a behavior cache for AI agents"]]>> At Pig, we built computer-use agents for automating legacy Windows applications (healthcare, lending, manufacturing, etc).

How do you justify this vs fixing the software to enable scripting? That seems both cheaper and easier to achieve and with far higher yields. Assume market rate servicing of course.

Plus; how do you force an "agent" to correct its behavior?

]]>Wed, 14 May 2025 22:31:22 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989862allmathlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989862https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989862<![CDATA[New comment by allmathl in "AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms"]]>Can someone explain how an "agent" is distinct from a "chatbot"?

I'm reading descriptions of agents and it just seems like the same tech deployed with authority to write and a scheduler

]]>Wed, 14 May 2025 22:22:41 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989797allmathlhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989797https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43989797