AI Researcher: Even 8 Hours of Agent Work Feels Brittle and 'Autocomplete-Like'
lateinteraction · x · 2026-09-20
Notable AI researcher lateinteraction posted a long thread checkpointing the current moment: models are still not good enough at real work. If you care about the shape of the work in more than 1-2 trivial dimensions, you'll quickly lose your mind over how brittle and autocomplete-like even 8 continuous hours of Astra or Fable agent work feels.
- Sparse cases of unimodal, verifiable success will keep multiplying, but on their own they tell us almost nothing.
- His core claim: something fundamental has not budged across model generations and 10,000x capability levels.
- He stresses he has no alternatives to sell and isn't discounting the progress or value created — if this changes tomorrow, he'll be the happiest person.
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