Val Town founder: I can't find problems worth letting coding agents run on all day
churchkey · x · 2026-09-09
Val Town founder Steve Krouse says a trial of astra 6 and fable 5.1 gave him a brief bout of "AI psychosis" before returning to reality: the ideas he cares about require human taste in the loop, so letting models run for hours on things like math proofs or Zig-to-Rust ports just yields more to review. He's asking for help finding tasks where always-on agents actually pay off.
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