Researcher: almost no real work looks like a year-long agent black box
RexDouglass · x · 2026-11-06
RexDouglass argues that even smart people wrongly conceive long-horizon agent tasks as black boxes that run for a year and return an answer — but almost nothing worth doing actually looks like that, pushing back on the popular narrative of fully autonomous long-running agents.
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