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Public story · 2026-03-02 · source-backed
Chollet draws the sharpest technical analogy yet: the engineer writes specs and tests (optimization goal + constraints), agents iterate until tests pass (optimization process), and the output is a black-box codebase you deploy without inspecting internals — just like neural network weights. His warning: overfitting to specs, Clever Hans shortcuts that don't generalize, data leakage, and concept drift will all hit agentic workflows. X/Twitter (@fchollet)
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