Agent Moravec's law: billions of tokens to get Claude to symlink config files
yaroslavvb · x · 2026-10-23
The author muses about a "Moravec's law for agents": things that were once hard are now trivial for AI — yet last week he spent billions of tokens and personal hours just getting Claude to symlink some config files from the right places. A sharp observation on the gap between agent reasoning power and mundane real-world file operations.
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