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Public story · 2026-02-23 · source-backed
Chollet's framing remains the essential counter-narrative. The argument: set optimization goals (specs + tests), run an optimization process (coding agents), and the result is a "blackbox model" (generated codebase) deployed without inspecting internal logic. All classic ML failure modes apply: overfitting to the spec, Clever Hans shortcuts, data leakage, concept drift.
The resolution for builders: Use AI for the 80% involving known techniques. Reserve human judgment for the 20% requiring novel abstraction. Treat agent-generated code as ML model outputs — validate generalization, not just test passage.
Source: OfficeChai analysis
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Both cover Chollet; overlapping topics (abstraction, agent, builder, chollet); picks up the Chollet thread on 2026-02-24.
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