The problem is that the agent does not care. Its primary goal is to get the job done.

Maybe the agent is smart enough to choose the optimal path, but that strongly depends on the model being used. You also do not know who is on the other side. With a human-facing API, you can usually assume who is using it and what they want to achieve. Humans are generally lazy and tend to look for the most efficient solution.

An agent, however, will happily iterate through 1,000 users and fetch the online state for each one individually, even across multiple paginated requests if necessary.

You can provide an endpoint that returns the online states for all users at once. A human will most likely use that endpoint, but I have seen agents go completely wild on the other side. :D

At some point, you may get a response like “token limit reached.” But what do you do then? You give the agent more tokens and increase your bill, because you cannot even tell whether there was a more optimized way to achieve the same result.

In practice, this is a surprisingly tricky problem. :D

That may sound like an exaggeration, but it’s exactly what I see in our product.

Humans developing something already have context that agents don’t have yet. Most agents start a task with virtually no prior knowledge. And they start from zero every single time. That may improve in the future, but we’re not there yet.

Can agents get the job done? Yes. But without a thoughtfully implemented MCP server, they are awkwardly inefficient.

Deno is an anagram of node, not reversed :)

But looks nice, will have a look at it!

Mi name is Florian - UX Designer, Web developer and Hardwareguy - and I stumbled upon a problem at work and tried to find a solution for that:

At work we are using a shared coffeemachine with a coffee tally sheet to track who is drinking coffee. One of my colleagues is buying the coffee and we are paying him each month. He is counting the coffee's per person, sending them an email and often telling them paying strange amounts of money (5.75€ or so).

We thought we can do that better, so I build a simple device that tracks the consumption through our Company ID card. Every user gets notified when the consumption is reaching a predefined threshold (like 5€) to pay the person that's buying the coffee (capsules in our case). It is cloud connected for easy access and can be extended by additional terminals too.

Our department was quite happy with it and other departments requested this solution after they saw our small gadget too. :)

In the future I plan to bring some fun and useful features to the coffee pal like: - Use your fingerprint instead your company ID Card - Coffee subscription: Get your favourite coffee automatically per mail, based on your consumption - Newsletter about your coffeeconsumption - Extend for tea, snacks and more - Connectivity through 3G for hassle-free setup. - and a lot more ;)

Now my question: Do you think such a solution could be nice for your workplace too? I know that a lot of companies are providing coffee for free, but at least in Europe a lot of my friends told me about the same problem at work.

If you are interested in this solution I would be very happy if you show your interest at the bottom of the page. I‘m curious if other people would need such a solution too.

Thanks in advance and have a nice day :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24677092

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Mi name is Florian and I stumbled upon a problem at work and tried to find a solution for that:

At work we are using a shared coffeemachine with a coffee tally sheet to track who is drinking coffee. One of my colleagues is buying the coffee and we are paying him each month. He is counting the coffee's per person, sending them an email and often telling them paying strange amounts of money (5.75€ or so).

We thought we can do that better, so I build a simple device that tracks the consumption through our Company ID card. Every user gets notified when the consumption is reaching a predefined threshold (like 5€) to pay the person that's buying the coffee (capsules in our case). It is cloud connected for easy access and can be extended by additional terminals too.

Our department was quite happy with it and other departments requested this solution after they saw our small gadget too. :)

In the future I plan to bring some fun and useful features to the coffee pal like: - Use your fingerprint instead your company ID Card - Coffee subscription: Get your favourite coffee automatically per mail, based on your consumption - Newsletter about your coffeeconsumption - Extend for tea, snacks and more - Connectivity through 3G for hassle-free setup. - and a lot more ;)

Now my question: Do you think such a solution could be nice for your workplace too? I know that a lot of companies are providing coffee for free, but at least in Europe a lot of my friends told me about the same problem at work.

I created a small webpage for you to get a feeling about it: https://coffeepal.autonoma.cloud

If you are interested in this solution I would be very happy if you show your interest at the bottom of the page.

Thanks in advance for your feedback and have a nice day! :)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24675972

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Having a 2017 MacBook Pro, 2,9GHz I9, 16GB RAM and an Radeon with 4GB. So my Hardware shouldn't be the Problem. Maybe some Chrome/MacOSX Bug?