Where's the ceiling for AI agents on complex engineering work?
oxpoxo · reddit · 2026-10-15
An engineer who heavily uses AI agents for complex engineering problems reports that with rigorous task framing and solid context, agents regularly outperform his own solutions; context handling remains the biggest friction outside pure coding. He raises the bigger question: will these systems start producing approaches and abstractions humans can no longer fully track or verify, and what does heavy dependence on them for hard thinking look like in practice?
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