alt Hacker NewsLooking at it from far is simply making something large from a smaller input, so its kind of like nondeterministic decompression.
What fills the holes are best practices, what can ruin the result is wrong assumptions.
I dont see how full autonomy can work either without checkpoints along the way.
Totally agreed. Those assumptions often compound as well. So the AI makes one wrong decision early in the process and it affects N downstream assumptions. When they finally finish their process they've built the wrong thing. This happens with one process running. Even on latest Opus models I have to babysit and correct and redirect claude code constantly. There's zero chance that 5 claude codes running for hours without my input are going to build the thing I actually need.
And at the end of the day it's not the agents who are accountable for the code running in the production. It's the human engineers.