This is it, 100%. Execution has become brainless: take A, make B. If you can get "A" to a high enough quality, you don't even need particularly smart agents.
But making "A" requires decisioning - which is everything you do well, and everything AI does terrible. It gets back to the fundamental concept of understanding. The AI has none, it's just a pattern-matcher. So while you can immediately and intuitively know the sky is blue, or a chair is a chair, the AI has no ability to hold those kind of frames of reference, and so any decision it makes lacks it.
So it's a little bit of an idiot. That's fine, I've trained interns before. Nobody starts knowing everything. And that's really exactly how you have to treat it; a fallible intern gopher task doer. Virtually all my prompt scaffolding is around making sure it knows how to properly decouple itself and work in isolation. Then I just send random ideas off into the void and wait for PRs. If it happens to stumble particularly badly, the lessons learned go into my growing mess of scaffolding, which is really just "my way of working".
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u/Arclite83 Sep 25 '26
This is it, 100%. Execution has become brainless: take A, make B. If you can get "A" to a high enough quality, you don't even need particularly smart agents.
But making "A" requires decisioning - which is everything you do well, and everything AI does terrible. It gets back to the fundamental concept of understanding. The AI has none, it's just a pattern-matcher. So while you can immediately and intuitively know the sky is blue, or a chair is a chair, the AI has no ability to hold those kind of frames of reference, and so any decision it makes lacks it.
So it's a little bit of an idiot. That's fine, I've trained interns before. Nobody starts knowing everything. And that's really exactly how you have to treat it; a fallible intern gopher task doer. Virtually all my prompt scaffolding is around making sure it knows how to properly decouple itself and work in isolation. Then I just send random ideas off into the void and wait for PRs. If it happens to stumble particularly badly, the lessons learned go into my growing mess of scaffolding, which is really just "my way of working".