Shoopy (@0xShoopy) “Everyone's racing to remove themselves from the agent loop. the bottleneck just” — TopicDigg

Everyone's racing to remove themselves from the agent loop. the bottleneck just moved to the thing you can't automate away: understanding what the agent actually did. Geoffrey Litt (Notion) on staying in the loop without slowing down: → verifying the output is correct isn't enough. if you don't understand the work, you can't guide the next step, and the errors compound → he pulls this straight from education research: reading something and thinking you got it is the illusion. you only find the gaps when you're forced to explain it or use it → so he has the agent quiz him on its own changes, or writes the tricky part himself and lets the agent do the rest → his rule of thumb: the effort you save on typing should go into understanding, not into checking out entirely → the trap is that agents make it feel like you understand, right up until you have to touch the code yourself Going faster with agents doesn't come from understanding less. it comes from understanding more, in less time.