This continues to boggle my mind so hopefully somebody can explain how this is happening.

I’ve been using all these tools since they started popping out around 2021 personally and professionally. I probably built four or five products at this point with assistance, not to mention the thousands and thousands of back-and-forth conversations for research or search or rubber ducking or whatever.

I have never spent more than whatever the professional max plan is that is consistently $20 a month.

I asked a friend of mine who spent a couple hundred dollars in like an few hours how they did it. The answer was they basically getting these agent groups of agents stuck in a loop and they’re constantly just generating verbose bullshit that is not even interrogated and doesn’t come out with any artifact that is inspectable no matter how expert you are.

The couple of stories I have heard of these massive crazy spends are people literally just assuming these things can complete an entire human task in one shot, so they continue to hit the “spin the wheel” button until they get something closer to what they want

But I’ve yet to see that actually work

and it actually flies in the face of every instruction guide or documentation or prompt engineering process that has been described over the last almost 5 years