f you treat your AI agent like a mind reader, you will get lazy results. For the past year, I have been using a specific prompting workflow that puts my work miles ahead of everyone else. I don’t send one-liners. Instead, I spend about 20 minutes co-creating a comprehensive, highly detailed blueprint with my AI.
Last week, I hit a wall that every AI agent developer eventually runs into. I asked my agent to search for a skill—specifically, something to help scrape LinkedIn connections from the DOM—and it came back entirely empty. Zero results. Nothing.
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