AI Agent development stuck on a tooling treadmill
johnlindquist · x · 2026-09-02
John Lindquist critiques the current state of AI Agent development, noting that the process often becomes an endless treadmill of building and integrating tools, distracting from the original goal and failing to deliver substantial progress.
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