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Together AI's Ashwinee Panda shares anecdote of an intern expecting an AI agent instead of a human for onboarding setup

The intern expected agentic troubleshooting to gain cluster access.

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Ashwinee Panda@PandaAshwinee#1354inAI

most recent intern was genuinely surprised that on the first day i asked him to sit next to me and manually walked him through his project setup, getting cluster access etc. he said “wow i thought i would have had to talk to your claw first” wtf are we even doing here?

Jinyan Su@SuJinyan6

It took me two weeks to onboarding for my internship at Microsoft, somehow, my collaborators relies too much on the agent to fix everything for them, such that they can't explain how things really works or have some basic understanding in what's blocking me.

Though they offered to meet in person and help me "solve the problem together", and when we meet, they prompt their agent while I ackwardly watching with them or they asked me to prompt my agent while they ackwardly watching with me.

Why don't I just prompt my agent for everything to save both of our time? Both the learning and human interaction are missing gradually.

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If you intern for me I promise I'll know more about your project than any agent does

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@PandaAshwinee Good good. I shudder at the thought of a claw doing this.

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