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...as of creating and nurturing relationships with digital minds, we're seeing the side effects of that happening in practice." It took us nearly a decade for the massive negative externalities of social media to be crystal clear. We're already...
... As a chatbot, it's trivial. As a thing that can do tool use (and possibly have side effects), it's easy to do for enthusiasts who are willing and able to use the command line and savvy enough to make their own security tradeoff decisions. T...
...n search engines. This can be done because queries aren't code; they don't have side effects. Previously you couldn't do this kind of intent blossoming for code, because code is dangerous. But if you could know that a given bit of code could...
...only your employees, not injectable) and/or things that can't have irreversible side effects. But lots of things have untrusted data (e.g. auto-filed JIRA tickets) or surprisingly have irreversible side effects (e.g. any network request). Pr...
Network requests are actions with possible side effects. You can't see what happens on the other side, so you have to assume it could do anything. That makes a system that has open-ended network requests ...
...el of human interaction. A principle: every action that could have irreversible side effects outside the system must be initiated by a human. This principle prevents automation run amok. At the beginning, this is extremely limiting; the huma...
... because if the LLM can be tricked into using those tools that cause real-world side effects that might be dangerous to you.[yy][yz][za][zb][zc][zd]
...umb agents. Agents are defined by doing something, which might have significant side effects, perhaps with some significant downside. In the "orchestrating a swarm" version, the user becomes like Mickey in The Sorcerer's Apprentice, trying t...
Pure functions are easy to recompose since there's no side effects. You can delay execution, or cache execution, and it's all mostly the same. This allows lots of interesting architectures to be viable; you can slic...