tabletcorryYou should write an agent
I should? what problems can I solve, that can be only done with an agent? As long as every AI provider is operating at a loss starting a sustainably monetizable project doesn't feel that realistic.
The post is just about playing around with the tech for fun. Why does monetization come into it? It feels like saying you don't want to use Python because Astral, the company that makes uv, is operating at a loss. What?
Agents use Apis that I will need to pay for and generally software dev is a job for me that needs to generate income.
If the Apis I call are not profitable for the provider then they won't be for me either.
This post is a fly.io advertisement
Practically everything is something you will need to pay for in the end. You probably spent money on an internet connection, electricity, and computing equipment to write this comment. Are you intending to make a profit from commenting here?
You don't need to run something like this against a paid API provider. You could easily rework this to run against a local agent hosted on hardware you own. A number of not-stupid-expensive consumer GPUs can run some smaller models locally at home for not a lot of money. You can even play videogames with those cards after.
Get this: sometimes people write code and tinker with things for fun. Crazy, I know.
The submission is an advertisement for fly.io and OpenAI , both are paid services. We are commenting on an ad.
The person who wrote it did it for money. Fly.io operates for money, OpenAi charges for their API.
They posted it here expecting to find customers. This is a sales pitch.
At this point why is it an issue to expect a developer to make money on it?
As a dev, If the chain of monetization ends with me then there is no mainstream adoption whatsoever on the horizon.
I love to tinker but I do it for free not using paid services.
As for tinkering with agents, its a solution looking for a problem.
Why are you repeatedly stating that the post is an ad as if it is some sort of dunk? Companies have blogs. Tech blogs often produce useful content. It is possible that an ad can both successfully promote the company and be useful to engineers. I find the Fly blog to be particularly well-written and thoughtful; it's taught me a good deal about Wireguard, for instance.
And that sounds fine, but Wireguard is not an overhyped industry promising huge gains in the future to investors and to developers jumping on a bandwagon who can find problems for this solution.
I actually have built agents already in the past and this is my opinion. If you read the article the author says they want to hear the reasoning for disliking it, so this is mine, the only way to create a business is raising money and hoping somebody strikes gold with the shovel Im paying for.