Not being controversial, but I genuinely believe it's user error when it's pure slop. There are too many people delivering real value with it for that not to be the case. I think there is an art to how you prompt, what problems you give it, how you break things down, etc. Also knowing what good looks like and being able to steer it in the right direction. The 20 agents I had running at various times were still taking input from me and I was interjecting when I saw them going off track (which happened!).

Model matters too. Lots of what I did was with Opus. Significantly better than Sonnet.