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Alessio Fanelli
Stress-tests agents instead of just opining on them
Fanelli's "Can coding agents self-improve?" found that GPT-5 and Claude Opus would build useful dev tools and then refuse to use them ("I didn't need any of them") — landing on the point that prompting alone won't make agents adopt their own improvements; you need a harness that holds them to it. As co-host of Latent Space and builder of AWT, he lives the verification-and-tooling thesis Tropo runs on.