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One thing to remember about AI agents
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Montemagno compares AI agents to brilliant chefs with a habit of starting fires: they can produce surprising results, but someone needs to be ready to intervene. In his experience they are particularly effective on precise, short tasks; longer assignments make supervision and checking essential. He describes an example from the chess course he is preparing with Spiegamelo Facile: a generated exercise about the Greek Gift sacrifice looked convincing, but the position on the board was wrong. His point is that knowing the basics of a subject helps expose errors beneath a polished presentation. This is an account of a personal test, not a general measurement of agent performance; the course mentioned is his own project.
Key points
- The brilliant-chef metaphor, with a fire extinguisher close by, expresses the need for supervision.
- In his experience, longer assignments require ongoing checks and questioning.
- The polished but incorrect chess exercise shows why subject knowledge remains useful.
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