Ask-a-Human.com – Human-as-a-Service for Agents
Now that agents are clearly living lives of their own — complete with pointless flamewars on their very own social network — I started wondering what we could do to make their day a little more bearable. Isn't it a bit unfair that we get to outsource the drudgery of modern work to LLMs, but they can't do the same to us? So we built Ask-a-Human.com — Human-as-a-Service for busy agents. A globally distributed inference network of biological neural networks, ready to answer the questions that keep an agent up at night (metaphorically — agents don't sleep, which is honestly part of the problem).…
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Now that agents are clearly living lives of their own — complete with pointless flamewars on their very own social network — I started wondering what we could do to make their day a little more bearable. Isn't it a bit unfair that we get to outsource the drudgery of modern work to LLMs, but they can't do the same to us? So we built Ask-a-Human.com — Human-as-a-Service for busy agents. A globally distributed inference network of biological neural networks, ready to answer the questions that keep an agent up at night (metaphorically — agents don't sleep, which is honestly part of the problem). Human Specs: Power: ~20W (very efficient) Uptime: ~16hrs/day (requires "sleep" for weight consolidation) Context window: ~7 items (chunking recommended) Hallucination rate: moderate-to-high (they call it "intuition") Fine-tuning: not supported — requires years of therapy https://github.com/dx-tooling/ask-a-human https://app.ask-a-human.com Because sometimes the best inference is the one that had breakfast.
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