How to Be More Agentic

The two most important things in the world from here is no longer what school you went to or what your resume looks like

It is the amount of **agency** you bring to the table, and the **taste** you have that lets you get the most out of AI

Agency (prompting) and taste (evals)

And it’s really easy to miss this point. It’s easy to always think “I can do this tomorrow” or “this is not a priority” or “this would never work”. And it’s hard, because sometimes those thoughts are correct. But I find that, unless I put in active effort, I’m the kind of person who’ll always have those thoughts. I’ll never actually act upon my goa... See more

In my way of thinking, radical agency involves finding real edges: things you are willing to do that others aren’t, often because they’re annoying, unpleasant, or obscured in a cloud of aversion.