Agent Lightning: Train Agents with Rl (no Code Changes Needed)
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Microsoft releases Agent Lightning, a tool for training agents with RL without code changes, but the community is skeptical about its effectiveness and documentation.
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Based on the number of emojis, I doubt the author even knows.
The design of this is pretty nice, it's based on a very simple to add instrumentation to your agent and the rest happens in parallel while your workload runs which is awesome.
You can probably do also what DSPy does for optimizing prompts but without having to rewrite using the DSPy API which can be a big win.
if its came at this point, why would we write readme md ourselves????
I'm not expected to write docs the way my father's generation did (thank god), so I don't expect them to write the docs the way I would. If this gets people engaged and excited, I lose nothing, they get something, we're fine.
As to the LLM generation claim, I don't care if it is or it isn't. The project seems legit, they're making claims that 3rd parties have verified ("Community Projects"), it looks useful and interesting, so I might spend more time with it soon.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44861765
OP didn’t think to include this very important fine print. Thanks OP!