It is what allows what is a very low margin opportunity to work - it is scaling with the total amount of manual labour and total token use remaining near constant
vidarh on Hacker News
90%+ of the work
In the thread “A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis”, replying to this comment
Helped: Directing agents to build deterministic tools for analysis.
… It will then run workflows that are increasingly calling deterministic scripts - every week another few decision points the agent used to do (and that I had to then manually vet) gets replaced by deterministic scripts. It is what allows what is a very low margin opportunity to work - it is scaling with the total amount of manual labour and total token use remaining near constant. It's an opportunity that I won't go into much detail about because the margins are thin and the moat narrow and it's basically only viable because of this approach of setting a tiny budget where ~1/3 of it or so is dedicated to systematically eliminating manual and LLM work from the process. …