Autonomous agents only pay off where value justifies engineer escalation, dev argues
Pavel_Asparagus · x · 2026-10-05
Developer Pavel Asparagus argues that autonomous agents realistically only work in contexts generating enough economic value to justify escalating to an engineer when things break. His take: "flaky help is worse than no help" — pointing to the economic constraint shaping real-world agent deployment.
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