Agent Planning

I Burned 20 Billion Tokens Because My AI Agent Was Too Smart

📅 July 27, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

I burned 20 billion tokens overnight because my AI agent was smart enough to execute a goal I never properly defined. The real bottleneck in AI collaboration isn’t model capability — it’s human clarity. Here’s the framework I built to fix it, based on military Commander’s Intent and one counterintuitive principle: the most important part of any goal isn’t what you want done, but what you explicitly forbid.

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Stop Chatting With Your AI. The Future Is a Strikethrough.

📅 July 26, 2026 📂 AI & Machine Learning

Stop chatting back and forth with your AI. The bottleneck has shifted from prompt generation to plan verification, and the most ergonomic way to fix a bad plan is not a better prompt—it’s a strikethrough. This is the return of direct manipulation interfaces, and it’s the future of human-AI interaction.

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