Aristotle agent stalls for ages on a 200-line Verilog file with no progress signal

thomasahle · x · 2026-10-29

Developer thomasahle reports that Harmonic's Aristotle agent got stuck for a long time on a simple 200-line Verilog file — reading code for 27+ minutes with no visible progress or chain-of-thought indication — and only runs one project at a time. He calls for progress indicators in such agent products.

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