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rsfern • today at 1:43 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Expectations and goals can be technically nonsensical. Agents have gotten really good, but they can’t magically solve intractable problems. If you’re out of your technical depth it can be easy to set unrealistic expectations without realizing it


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ffsm8 • today at 1:56 PM

Then you're still middle-roading it from my perspective. Treating it as a black box means you're only specifying what comes out, essentially.

But to preempt a "I can't do that in my brownfield distributed monolith I'm maintaining at $dayjob": yes, that's why I said it may not be possible without refactoring.

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