Dev argues agents make experimentation so cheap you should be 10x more scientific
zack_overflow · x · 2026-11-03
Developer zackoverflow argues that with agents like Claude, running tests, analyzing results and crunching numbers is now far faster and cheaper, so major decisions should be "10x more scientific." Pre-agents, validation was slow enough that intuition usually won; the cost structure has flipped, but our priors haven't caught up — so deliberately over-index on scientific decision-making to find where the new tradeoff actually sits.
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