vboykis: an agent eagerly helped me set an env var wrong and broke my results
vboykis · x · 2026-10-29
ML engineer Vicki Boykis spent a day debugging wrong results, only to find her agent had 'eagerly helped' set an env var incorrectly. Her larger point: this work can probably be automated, but not quite yet — she doesn't let agents complete a loop without her.
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