I agree. This article did a great job at making me sympathetic to an LLM agent.

Given what looks to be a simple task with a tight deadline, but is actually rendered almost impossible by bottlenecks the people who gave the task didn't forsee - and then getting blamed for not being able to complete the task.

Sounds like a day at my old job.

I personally dislike LLMs for their environmental impact and corrosiveness towards human culture, and I still think this was an unfair test. It had essentially no access to the budget it was supposed to have available due to API bugs, and was blocked from any form of advertising except spam marketing that its creators punished it for using. The fuck was it meant to do, shit money out from its arse?

It's a terrible prompt too. They just spammed it with "make the most money possible". Complex tasks need complex harnesses and multiple agents.

you gotta give the ai bros credit, they've managed to turn "there's no such thing as bad publicity" into a multi-disciplinary corporate stratgy.

If it was modeled after real world businesses, this is just par for the course. Now have it jeep it's memory up to date so it can learn from past failures, and you now have an accurate simulation of a sales person.

A human locked in an apartment with internet acess would have hardly done better under these conditions