Bao Yu Says Building Agent Tools and Reshaping Workflows Are More Valuable

What happened

Bao Yu says building agents is less valuable than creating tools for agents and using them to reshape workflows. He compares this with software development, where setting up systems and writing code are less valuable than using code to solve business problems.

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The story so far

Bao Yu (dotey) argued that creating tools for agents and using agents to redesign workflows are more valuable than building agents themselves. He compared this with software development, saying that setting up systems and writing code are less valuable than using code to solve business problems.