An agent ran the tool bake-off for his singing app and cut months of building

An agent researched available tools, built an eval set, and tested tools against each other to pick the set used for his singing app, cutting build time from months or a year to about 10 days.

How it works

An agent researches available tools
Builds an evaluation set
Tests the tools against each other to pick the set used for his singing app
Cutting build time from months

Why it’s worth knowing

Choosing tools is the cheapest phase to get right and the dearest to get wrong.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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