Agents made screwing around so cheap that 'finding out' stopped being exciting, dev says
zack_overflow · x · 2026-10-24
Developer zackoverflow jokes that the joy of "fuck around and find out" was the dopamine of discovery — but agents made the screwing-around part so fast and cheap that findings flooded in and the excitement inflated away. His fix: make the agents REALLY screw around to unearth genuinely spectacular results. A neat observation on the new economics of exploration in the agent era.
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