@kentcdodds: Your agent can't drive itself because you have to keep steering it on the same thing over and over again. There's an ag…
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Kent C. Dodds comments on the limitations of AI agents that require constant steering and suggests a solution to avoid repetitive instructions.
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Your agent can’t drive itself because you have to keep steering it on the same thing over and over again.
There’s an age old solution to this. Stop telling your agent no over and over again. https://t.co/j7bCmE6TsV
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