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variant: listing
kind: observations
url: /observations
title: Observations
description: Short first-party notes about what seems to be happening.
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# Observations

Short first-party notes about what seems to be happening.

- **Agent work is becoming supervisory: the scarce act is increasingly deciding what to ask, inspect, accept, or redirect, not typing the implementation.** ([HTML](/observations/agent-work-is-becoming-supervisory); [Markdown](/observations/agent-work-is-becoming-supervisory.md); ~173 tokens; 2026-05-15; #agents #workflows)
- **Frontier models such as GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.7 are now good enough at detailed, complex instruction following that a well-structured harness can behave like a practical workflow engine.** ([HTML](/observations/frontier-models-follow-complex-instructions); [Markdown](/observations/frontier-models-follow-complex-instructions.md); ~219 tokens; 2026-05-21; #agents #frontier-models #harnesses #workflows)
- **GitHub has scaling pressure that can show up as a broken experience through intermittent errors, and agent-generated repository volume is one likely contributor.** ([HTML](/observations/github-scaling-pressure-from-agent-generated-repos); [Markdown](/observations/github-scaling-pressure-from-agent-generated-repos.md); ~231 tokens; 2026-05-15; #agents #github #infrastructure #workflows)