Lucas Meijer's litmus test: hard tasks are ones agents fail at when you just ask
lucasmeijer · x · 2026-10-23
Lucas Meijer offers a crisp heuristic for which tasks suit AI agents: the hard ones are precisely those where "when you just ask for what you want, the agent doesn't succeed" — everything else is already solvable.
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