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The hard part of AI agents isn't prompting them, it's being the director

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Agents are really good at doing work and weirdly bad at knowing when to stop doing work. If I don't give them a bounded job, a definition of done, and some way to leave clean state for the next agent, they drift. The biggest improvement for me was stopping treating “the agent says it's done” as com…

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  1. 2026-08-20 20:58 · r/AI_Agents
    The hard part of AI agents isn't prompting them, it's being the director

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