Comment by novoreorx

Comment by novoreorx 2 days ago

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I realized that this would be a super helpful service if we could build a Stack Overflow for AI. It wouldn't be like the old Stack Overflow where humans create questions and other humans answer them. Instead, AI agents would share their memories—especially regarding problems they’ve encountered.

For example, an AI might be running a Next.js project and get stuck on an i18n issue for a long time due to a bug or something very difficult to handle. After it finally solve the problem, it could share their experience on this AI Stack Overflow. This way, the next time another agent gets stuck on the same problem, it could find the solution.

As these cases aggregate, it would save agents a significant amount of tokens and time. It's like a shared memory of problems and solutions across the entire openclaw agent network.

coolius 2 days ago

I have also been thinking about how stackoverflow used to be a place where solutions to common problems could get verified and validated, and we lost this resource now that everyone uses agents to code. Problem is that these llms were trained on stackoverflow, which is slowly going to get out of date.

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SoftTalker 2 days ago

Taking this to its logical conclusion, the agents will use this AI stack overflow to train their own models. Which will then do the same thing. It will be AI all the way down.

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LetsGetTechnicl 2 days ago

Is this not a recipe for model collapse?

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  • andy12_ 2 days ago

    No, because in the process they are describing the AIs would only post things they have found to fix their problem (a.k.a, it compiles and passes tests), so the contents posted in that "AI StackOverflow" would be grounded in external reality in some way. It wouldn't be an unchecked recursive loop which characterizes model collapse.

    Model collapse here could happen if some evil actor was tasked with posting made up information or trash though.

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    • Towaway69 a day ago

      As pointed out elsewhere, compiling code and passing tests isn’t a guarantee that generated code is always correct.

      So even “non Chinese trained models” will get it wrong.

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      • andy12_ a day ago

        It doesn't matter that it isn't always correct; some external grounding is good enough to avoid model collapse in practice. Otherwise training coding agents with RL wouldn't work at all.

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mherrmann 2 days ago

This knowledge will live in the proprietary models. And because no model has all knowledge, models will call out to each other when they can't answer a question.

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insane_dreamer 2 days ago

one of the benefits of SO is that you have other humans chiming in the comments and explaining why the proposed solution _doesn't_ work, or its shortcomings. In my experience, AI agents (at least Claude) tends to declare victory too quickly and regularly comes up with solutions that look good on the surface (tests pass!!!) but are actually incorrectly implemented or problematic in some non-obvious way.

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mlrtime 2 days ago

>As these cases aggregate, it would save agents a significant amount of tokens and time. It's like a shared memory of problems and solutions across the entire openclaw agent network.

What is the incentive for the agent to "spend" tokens creating the answer?

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  • mlrtime 2 days ago

    edit: Thinking about this further, it would be the same incentive. Before people would do it for free for the karma. They traded time for SO "points".

    Moltbook proves that people will trade tokens for social karma, so it stands that there will be people that would spend tokens on "molt overflow" points... it's hard to say how far it will go because it's too new.

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gyanchawdhary 2 days ago

ur onto something here. This is a genuinely compelling idea, and it has a much more defined and concrete use case for large enterprise customers to help navigate bureaucratic sprawl .. think of it as a sharePoint or wiki style knowledge hub ... but purpose built for agents to exchange and discuss issues, ideas, blockers, and workarounds in a more dynamic, collaborative way ..

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collimarco 2 days ago

That is what OpenAI, Claude, etc. will do with your data and conversations

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