agent experience
The next literacy is externalizing judgment
When ChatGPT took off, everyone wanted to learn prompt engineering. We've been optimizing the wrong thing. The biggest productivity gains from LLMs come from learning to externalize judgment.
You can't judge an AI agent until you know what the task is worth
We keep asking whether AI coding agents are good or bad, fast or slow, cheap or expensive. But good compared to what? Until you know what a task is actually worth to you, you have no way to tell whether the agent's output was a bargain or a rip-off.