Researcher Questions the Black-Box Long-Horizon Agent Narrative

Rex Douglass challenges the popular long-horizon agent narrative, arguing that even smart people imagine such tasks as a black box where an agent works for a year and returns an answer, while almost no genuinely interesting real-world tasks actually work that way.

2026-11-06 ~ 2026-11-06 · 2 related posts

• Researcher: almost no real work looks like a year-long agent black box — RexDouglass · 2026-11-06
• Researcher: almost nothing interesting looks like a year-long black-box agent task — RexDouglass · 2026-11-06