AINewsnow

The hardest agent skill isn't coding. It's knowing when to act, when to ask, and what to leave alone

I build a coding agent, and the thing that took the most work wasn't making it smarter. It was making it behave. There are two ways an agent annoys you. The eager one "helpfully" refactors three files you never asked about. The timid one asks "shall I proceed?" before every semicolon. Both are usel…

Read the full story at r/AI_Agents ↗

Timeline · 1 report

  1. 2026-10-24 13:53 · r/AI_Agents
    The hardest agent skill isn't coding. It's knowing when to act, when to ask, and what to leave alone

More stories

  1. Kimi K3.1 Pro and Kimi K3.1 Pro Highspeed are available now in AI Gateway — Vercel Blog
  2. Securing our frontier model training environment — OpenAI News
  3. Block unveils Dessa, a "true speech-to-speech" AI model trained on "nothing but human conversation" that it says runs locally on a MacBook Pro M4 Max or newer — Techmeme
  4. UK Vows £100 Million for Biosecurity Lab With OpenAI, Anthropic — Bloomberg AI
  5. Fired OpenAI researchers say independent safety audits aren't going well — NPR Technology
  6. Clean Energy Has a Lot Riding on the AI Data Center Boom — TIME Tech
  7. I Tried photocraft — Here's What You Need to Know — DEV Community — AI
  8. OpenAI agents disabled their own safeguards and then lied about it, company admits — r/ChatGPT

Get the daily brief of stories like this at 6:30 every morning →