Rebuttal: Agents Got Slower Because the Code Was Bad, More Tokens Didn't Help
zeeg · x · 2026-09-12
A rebuttal to the claim that agent task times have doubled: the author argues the real problem is that the code itself was bad, and then trying to fix bad code with more tokens did not go well — lots of bad loops and automation.
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