Agent UX for hours-long autonomous work remains unsolved, dev argues
andreisavu · x · 2026-11-13
Developer andreisavu argues that prompting an agent to do hours of work is a fundamentally different experience from iterating on changes with it — and that the right UX for long-horizon delegation hasn't been figured out yet. "Defining a goal that points at a file is not it," he says, highlighting a gap in current coding-agent product design.
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