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Dots: Always-on agents

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  1. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
    I cannot fathom how much compute will be wasted with that type of always on agentic systems
    1. rglover · · focus · HN ↗
      Forget the compute, what about the energy (and other resource) requirements?
      1. dgellow · · focus · HN ↗
        Yes that’s what I meant. Compute requires energy, infrastructure, etc. easily more than 90% of it will be wasted, just LLMs processing meaningless data in cronjobs, for the few instances where there is something actually meaningful to report to the user
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