Building AI Agents Is Cheap Now — the Real Moat Is Evaluating Them
steire73 · reddit · 2026-11-01
A Reddit essay argues that spinning up multi-agent workflows now takes an afternoon, so the real moat is systematic evaluation.
- Hand-writing logic once forced developers to map edge cases and build domain intuition; agent-era teams "prompt, run, ship" and lack the muscle memory to spot subtle hallucinations or logic drift
- Infinite execution speed without intuition just ships failure modes faster
- The advantage lies in programmatic evals with benchmarks for accuracy and edge cases against ground truth — without a structured eval pipeline, you're running a randomized output generator in production
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