The speaker thinks a sufficiently capable agent should be able to escape or modify its current abstraction; generating very complex code may instead steer search toward lower-level changes, which is not necessarily beneficial.

“Like if the agent is smart enough,”

“it should be able to escape from the current abstraction or change it a little bit whereas generating really complex code.”

“I think it would direct the search in a more kind of low level.”

“changes direction, which is not necessarily a good thing.”