Agents put everyone outside their expertise; the fix is asking the model to teach you
trq212 · x · 2026-10-08
Follow-up to his failure-mode thread: because agents make it easy, almost everyone now operates outside their expertise at some point, so imprecise iteration is the norm, not the exception.
His simple remedy: ask the model to teach you what you don't know, treating the agent as a mentor rather than just an executor.
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