Agent Dev Reflection: The Bottleneck is Your Spec, Not the Model
Zachly · x · 2026-08-13
The author shares insights on AI agent development, arguing that the core bottleneck is the clarity of the developer's specifications rather than the model itself.
- Explicit Instructions: Most 'hallucinations' stem from developers failing to specify inputs, constraints, and design patterns.
- Evals First: Define what a correct answer looks like before writing prompts.
- Shrink Scope: Agents with fewer tools and hard boundaries perform better.
- Context > Model: A cheap model with good context beats a frontier model with bad context almost every time.
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