Super Capable, Super Stupid
Why 10 Good Days Don’t Pay for Day 11: The Discipline of Agentic Context, Skills, and Gates
Kuzzat Altay55 min26 chaptersFree, all the way through
Chapters
01Ten good days, and then day eleven0:4802An agent is a chatbot with arms, a goal, and a loop2:5103The car I bought my wife was capable, not reliable2:1104A model tells you what you like, not what is true2:5005Ninety-nine good runs do not pay for one catastrophe2:1306I learned the harness from punches to the face2:3707An agent wakes up blank every single time2:0008Context engineering means loading only what tonight needs2:3309Treat the last thirty percent of its memory as gone2:2310One stale number can poison the whole session2:1611The right context can still be weighed wrong1:5112Only someone who knows the business can engineer its context1:5813A prompt you repeat every day should be written once2:1514The agent reads a skill's label until it needs the page2:0615One agent with one job beats one agent with every skill2:0116A gate is the part of the harness that can say no2:3517In software the gates are tests you already know2:4418A two-hour session is a sprint and needs a retrospective2:0419Your best session already contains your next skill2:1020An agent on your machine is a hacker and a developer2:1021Eighty percent of a harness is a template, twenty is yours2:2022Make one agent solid before you orchestrate many2:1223Tell your manager capable, not reliable, before anyone promises layoffs1:5724The harness you learn on testing fits every job2:1325What it cost0:4926What you now know1:16
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