> AI agents are just software, after all. I wasn’t going to understand them by reading prompt guides. I had to use them for real work, see where they failed, change the prompts, tools, or environment, and try again.

AI agents are just software, so the only way to understand them is trial and error?

Building understanding through use, as opposed to reading, is not a controversial idea.

Tried and true approach. Sometimes the only way to proceed if you are dealing with - embedded devices, protocols, long and deep stacktraces or freecad.

I think that's similarly in line with software; you don't really know the limitations of a library until you use it, and see that it fails for X reason at 10Hz, or 1000Hz.