It's the little things

One of my favourite things about watching LLMs progress in ability is orchestration. One of the first things I tried to do when ChatGPT first released was create some long, ridiculous plan for it to do when I had no idea how it worked or what the limitations were. Turned out, ChatGPT could hum along for a step, possibly two on rare occasions, and then stop.

What it can do now is genuinely impressive to me.

I just had it set up a scheme to start a task that writes to a db, pause at a specific time because a launchagent is always planned for shortly after the pause time. Then it's gonna monitor that job, and when it finishes, resume its original task. Then, because I told it I was going to bed and expected a summary waiting for me in the morning, it'll do that too.

I recognize none of these feats on their own or really even together is that impressive. Most of us have probably done far more impressive or theoretically more complicated things. But it's still cool to me, and I get a kick out of it.