Sentry CEO Invokes Bitter Lesson: Smarter Models Won't Need to Verify Their Work
zeeg · x · 2026-11-04
Reacting to a debate on whether coding agents need self-verification, Sentry CEO David Cramer argues the bitter lesson is at work: the smartest models will need fewer and fewer tokens and "won't need to verify their work or check it for bugs, they will just be right." trq212 pushes back that verification mostly means checking design correctness, not compilation. The exchange captures a core argument about how much of the human verification layer in AI coding workflows will survive as models improve.
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