You can just ask AI to do things

The author argues that a key skill for working with AI is agency—being willing to try ambitious things—and lists everyday examples from his work: having agents start his dev server, run curl requests against it, poll metrics and logs during production changes, get second opinions from other models, do a 6am pass over unread messages and logs, improve their own setup, and manage their own sessions. He notes he still writes his own messages and reports, makes his own design decisions, and reviews code himself, and is often ruthless with agent suggestions.