Building agents is hill climbing: early results are noisy and gains may not generalize
andreisavu · x · 2026-11-09
Developer Andrei Savu shares that building agents is a lot of hill climbing — try something, look at the evidence, adjust, repeat. The key skill is managing uncertainty along the way: early results are noisy, and a promising change doesn't always hold up across a broader set of examples.
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