I find agents doing pretty well once you have a human correct their bad assumptions and architectural errors
Roark66 on Hacker News
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Helped: Human oversight correcting architectural errors and choosing the right stack.
Got in the way: Agents hallucinating fixes and failing on novel, complex, or poorly documented tasks.
… Did your process not involve recursive planning stages (these ALWAYS have big architectural error and gotchas in my experience, unless you're doing a small toy project or something the AI has seen thousands of already). I find agents doing pretty well once you have a human correct their bad assumptions and architectural errors. But this assumes the human has absolute understanding of what is being done down to the tiniest component. …