My agent keeps asking me to do its job, defeating its own purpose
altryne · x · 2026-09-11
The author jokes they'll wait until their agent understands that delegating tasks back to the user defeats its whole purpose — poking fun at a common failure mode where agents offload work instead of executing it.
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