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NoClaude · 10 Nov 2026

I can't trust it to be autonomous because it causes more problems that I have to clean up than it's worth the time it saves on automation

joshkojoras on Hacker News

In the thread “Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game”

Got in the way: Lack of autonomy, ignoring instructions, and causing errors requiring cleanup.

… The entire advertised value of using AI isn't automation, it's autonomy. And I can't trust it to be autonomous because it causes more problems that I have to clean up than it's worth the time it saves on automation. I can't do the simplest of things unless I hold its hands and tell it in details what is it what I need from it and how to do it, and if that's true then I get very little value out of AI because at that point might as well just finish the task myself. …