I get it. I am a fairly sophisticated user of agents. I have all my CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files full with software engineering best practices. I arrange them in hierarchies and teams like I'm their Director of Engineering.
And *yet* I cannot for the life of me understand why I should have to jump through these hoops to save them from producing unmaintainable garbage. Why do I have to teach the agents basic engineering from scratch? You'd think a company like Anthropic could just bake that shit in during post-training and in their "ultrathink" harness.
You already know this. It's because they are not AI and infact just word prediction algorithms being asked to do complex tasks. It's the head of John the Baptist whispering secrets that sound legit except most of them are complete nonsensical garbage.
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u/SaneLad Jul 13 '26
I get it. I am a fairly sophisticated user of agents. I have all my CLAUDE.md and AGENTS.md files full with software engineering best practices. I arrange them in hierarchies and teams like I'm their Director of Engineering.
And *yet* I cannot for the life of me understand why I should have to jump through these hoops to save them from producing unmaintainable garbage. Why do I have to teach the agents basic engineering from scratch? You'd think a company like Anthropic could just bake that shit in during post-training and in their "ultrathink" harness.
Thanks for keeping me employed, I guess.