Dev jokes coding agents need a 'continue' button to stop abandoning work
willcb · x · 2026-09-05
Developer willcb jokes that if Astra-style agents kept going instead of fully abandoning their work when you ask a question, it would essentially be AGI. He half-seriously suggests adding a "continue" button to the codex micro, pointing at a familiar pain point in coding agent workflows: agents stop mid-task and need constant human nudging to resume.
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