Social scientist: CS treats agentic development as a magic black box
RexDouglass · x · 2026-10-23
RexDouglass, coming from social science, argues most of CS/engineering treats agentic development as a closed black box that "magically gets better." Yet social science shows that even more expert principals don't make principal-agent problems easier — a blind spot he says the field urgently needs to confront.
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