Fast feedback is no longer straightforwardly good: agent-speed loops make you rebuild your mental model dozens of times in half an hour.

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• Agency and clock speed beat domain experience in a hire, and in a fast-moving field experience is often a crutch of habits that need discarding. ACAlbert Cheng5 Oct 2025
• Learned approximations of slow simulators change what science is possible, by turning a six-month screening run into something you do over lunch. JDJeff Dean30 Jul 2026
• Slow models are better company than fast ones, because the minutes an agent spends working are the minutes two humans get to talk about the design. KBKent Beck7 Apr 2026
• There is no real impediment to models running their own research loop and improving themselves at a far more rapid rate. JDJeff Dean30 Jul 2026
• Knowing something yourself will stay faster than asking a model for it, because a lookup in your own head beats a round trip to an agent. PCPatrick Collison31 Jul 2026

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