Frontier agentic AI engineer: 'staying at the frontier is exhausting, not sure how long I can keep up'
smlpth · x · 2026-11-03
The author relays a quote from a close friend working at the frontier of agentic AI for years: "staying at the frontier is exhausting, not sure how longer I can keep up. One needs to have no life outside of it to do that." A candid window into the burnout cost of keeping pace with AI's iteration speed.
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