Asking a coding agent for a status update gets you a wall of jargon
cyrus_zei · x · 2026-10-13
Developer adamdotdev shared a chat where he simply asked his coding agent "what's the status" — and got a dense paragraph full of jargon about "drift between cached execution state and the upstream resolver," "async boundaries inheriting context," and "normalizing references." His entire reply: "cool." cyruszei's quote-tweet pokes fun at how over-engineered AI agents' status reports sound.
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