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- The speaker states that engineers at Anthropic quit building AI agents months ago in favor of a better way to get real work done with AI.
- The sharpest people in AI are running just one agent with a playbook for each and every job instead of making a new agent for each task.
- AI delegation involves having Claude or ChatGPT quiz the user on their work until they can take it over.
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Honestly, I'd stop building AI agents right now. And the engineers at Anthropic are on my side because they quit building them months ago once they found a far better way to get real work done with AI. To be fair, it's a lot easier. So, tell me if this rings a bell.
You got hooked on AI, dove right in, and now you've got 15 projects sitting half done and only a few of them run properly some of the time. And here's the deal, you're not to blame. Everyone said to make a new agent for each task, then connect them all up. But, that's the very reason their AI agents still seems dumb. Because the sharpest people in AI are doing the exact reverse, running just one agent with a playbook for each and every job. And to set this up, you
only need one idea, and it's called AI delegation. Step one, have Claude or ChatGPT quiz you on your work until they can take it over. Then, grab a prompt like this one to shape all of it into a playbook. After that, you build a toolbox, the spot where every file, signed-off script, template, or doc your agent creates gets stored and tied by to the playbook as a rule. That way, it never makes the same thing over again.
Here's a prompt you can use to build it. Third comes the proof, and hardly anyone bothers with it, but it's a list of what done really looks like, built into the playbook so your agent has to review its own work before it hands you anything. Grab a prompt like this to get it going. Now, when your agent messes up, you don't patch it in the chat or tweak some massive brain, you fix the playbook the task actually runs on. That's the entire cycle. So, save this and share it with that friend who keeps saying AI is useless.