seems like a rube-goldberg esque way to consume 10x tokens. is this really where the industry is heading?
I like to think of it like the difference between dropping a ball on a roulette wheel (get one random number/sequence of repeated) - vs dropping a ball on a carved topographic map, where valleys guide the ball to a particular outcome.
If you can stand a little AI expansion - here are a few points Gemini came up with - I think the idea has some merit:
https://g.co/gemini/share/b5b97867eeb1
(Maybe the better analogy is roulette vs pinball machine)
Why is it Rube Goldbergesque? The process doesn't seem arbitrary.
Rube Goldberg machines (or Heath Robinson contraptions) aren't arbitrary, they're complicated or contrived ways of achieving the process; often a very literal interpretation of how an automatic machine might imitate an otherwise manual action – a robotic hand movement for example. I think it's quite a good analogy, even if agentic Goldberg works well.
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