Comment by sothatsit

Yeah, I definitely see this as well. These are the people with seven MCP servers, 5000-line AGENTS.md files, their own "memory systems" for the agents, and who try to hit their rate-limits on all their agents every 5 hours (regardless of whether or not they are actually getting useful work done). Having tried some of this stuff when I was trying to learn about agents, it almost always made their performance worse...

In web development, where I get the most out of agents, I am still only using them for implementing basic things. I will write anything even moderately complex, as agents often make the wrong assumptions somewhere. And then there's also manual work required to review and tidy up agent output. But there's just so much grunt work in web development from adding to a DB schema, writing a migration, adding the data to your model, exposing it in an API endpoint, and finally showing it on a page. None of that is complicated, so agents are pretty good at it.