[saithound]

CMU professors can't build AI agents, and decide to brag about it. That's the article.

"We tried something, and we couldn't make it work. Therefore it must be impossible to do."

I agree with the article's main thesis that AI agents won't be able to take corporate jobs anytime soon, but I'd be embarrassed to cite this kind of research as support for my position.

[foldr]

It’s not entirely clear from the write up in the article, but it sounds like this was intended as a test of existing “off the shelf” AI agent models. In other words, the aim is to find out what happens if you try to use the existing commercially available technology (which of course is what most people would be doing).

[kjkjadksj]

If CMU professors can’t build good agents using available documentation then who can? Not their fault the state of the tooling is what it is.