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Shipping with AIFour control gates that let an agent ship real workUse this when you want the agent to work more independently without quietly drifting off and calling it done Economics & tradeoffsTenfold Is the Sticker Price. What You Take Home Is the Real StoryProductivity with agents: why it feels 10× faster while the project doesn't move 10× — and how to measure the real number Economics & tradeoffsThe error is cheap when it happens. It gets expensive when you find out.The real cost of an agent error starts when someone acts on it — not when it was made. And those two moments are usually further apart than you think.Economics & tradeoffsThe Agent Isn't Expensive. Your Task Selection Is.Every agent call carries a fixed overhead cost — and for tasks below a certain threshold, that cost eats your savings whole.Economics & tradeoffsOne Prompt, Three Jobs. Three Mediocre Outputs.Bundling tasks into one prompt feels efficient. What you're actually doing is diluting focus — and the last output almost always suffers.Economics & tradeoffsThe First Question Isn't How to Prompt It — It's Whether This Should Go to an Agent at AllThe whole habit assumes you've already picked the agent. There's a step before that: pick the right tool, out of four Tools & setupSet it once, skip the explainingEvery time you re-explain the same context to an agent, you're paying a recurring fee for something you never set up once. Setup is the upfront payment that means you never pay again.Agent skillsIf It's Deterministic, Don't Make It GuessA forcing function that sends exact-answer work to a script instead of the model's reasoning.Agent skillsIs this even worth an agent — ask before you open the chatA pre-flight prompt that makes the agent sanity-check whether the task is worth handing over, instead of plowing into work a one-liner could do.

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