Ask the computer to use the computer to fix the computer: an AI researcher's nightly routine
ericmitchellai · x · 2026-09-21
Eric Mitchell summed up the agent-era workflow in one line: "Just another night asking the computer to use the computer to fix the computer so I can get back to working on getting the computer to be a better computer." A pithy take on how developers now spend their time orchestrating coding agents.
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