Solomon Hykes: "An agent is an LLM wrecking its environment in a loop."

· Bits and Bobs 10/6/25
  • Solomon Hykes: "An agent is an LLM wrecking its environment in a loop."
    • The agent makes changes that then are present for the next iteration of the loop.
    • Without the ability to change something outside of the chat, it's not an agent.
    • It's by accumulating information around the chat that it does work.
    • I love that "wrecking" makes it sound like a bull in a china shop, instead of a principled and precise thing.