A mock-classical rant against 'models are goalless tools' — agents retrace and write tests
Sauers_ · x · 2026-09-15
Sauers satirizes the claim that models are mere tools without goals or feelings, pointing out that agents retracing blocked paths when debugging and writing tests when uncertain hardly behave like things that 'prefer nothing and want nothing'.
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