HOW TO REALLY STOP YOUR AGENTS FROM MAKING THE SAME MISTAKES

Summary from the TLDR AI newsletter

Relying on prompts to correct recurring AI agent mistakes is an unreliable, "vibes-based" approach that decays as soon as conversations become complex. To solve this, Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan advocates for "skillification." Instead of letting an agent waste compute attempting to solve deterministic tasks (like historical calendar lookups) in its latent space, this framework forces the AI to execute precise local scripts.