Agents Need A World, Not Just A Prompt
Better prompts are not enough for serious AI work. Agents become useful when they can inspect the state of a project, see what changed, and operate inside a shared world.
I write and teach how to build AI systems that expand human intelligence, creativity, and agency: memory, skills, workflows, and creative strategy.
Better prompts are not enough for serious AI work. Agents become useful when they can inspect the state of a project, see what changed, and operate inside a shared world.
Agents need more than prompts. This practical guide shows how to give them persistent project state: matters, status, rules, documents, and logs they can inspect and update.
AI agents should not be supervised everywhere or trusted nowhere. The useful pattern is human checkpoints: clear places where judgment, risk, and publication decisions stay with you.
A practical checkpoint model for agentic work: where to let agents run, where to stop them, and where human approval protects the whole workflow.
Readable AI text is not the same as good writing. The simplest fix is to separate the writer from the reviewer and let human judgment decide what survives.
A practical workflow for using AI as writer, reviewer, editor, and fact-checker without letting the whole process collapse into one generic draft.