Devs still debug agent runs for hours while demos promise autonomous research

DominiqueCAPaul · x · 2026-09-11

A developer notes the gap between timeline hype (Astra doing fancy tasks) and reality: his agent struggles to implement a simple paper.

He still spends lots of time 'debugging' agentic runs — asking questions, figuring out what it tried, nudging it back on track — and expected autoresearch tasks to already be in post-training datasets by now.

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