the agentic operator
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You can't prompt your way to greatness

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Intelligence is everywhere now, and the landscape will keep shifting. Everybody can build, so a lot of people are going to build. But you still trip up against human nature. People are still lazy. People are still going to fuck around. A lot of people are going to build crap, because building greatness still takes a lot of time.

You can't prompt your way to greatness. You still have to spend a lot of time working with the tool. You can do a lot, but you can't cheat that time. All you can do is work around it, and make it easier to pay the price you need to pay. Use your attention, use your time, and make sure everything else is taken care of so you can.