Autolith: A programming agent with a live runtime

(lambda-symbolics.com)

29 points | by vismit2000 a day ago ago

4 comments

  • a2ff6eeb0 36 minutes ago ago

    Given that the most important feature for agent performance is the popularity of the language, ie, the amount of training data, (https://danluu.com/pl-tokens/), why would you cause problems for yourself by using Lisp rather than Python/Javascript if you care mainly about results fast, or C/C++/Rust if you care about performance too?

    • jbott 11 minutes ago ago

      > the most important feature for agent performance is the popularity of the language

      This is explicitly called out as only weakly supported in that blog post:

        - You should use a popular language
          - There's weak support for this statement
  • rufius an hour ago ago

    This is an interesting idea. I was thinking about something similar in Smalltalk or Erlang the other day. Mostly building on the actor/object+mailbox concept.

    I didn’t actually do anything with that idea yet but may look at the idea in Elixir this weekend.

  • yogthos an hour ago ago

    Amusingly, I started building something very similar in Jolt today :) https://github.com/yogthos/samizdat/