Comment by locknitpicker

> If a model can take a series of increasingly complex instructions and satisfy the requirements without human intervention (...)

This is the wrong metric to target. Today's models can feel one-shot but they are so at the expense of resilient ReAct loops that brute force their way out of the mess initial prompts created.

And each iteration is expensive.

Sometimes failing fast and early is better than going for one-shot models that try to mitigate the mess they created with reasoning steps and ReAct loops.