Make the AI agent’s job easy (warning: this may be hard), then give it an easy job.

This is my reinterpretation of Kent Beck's old tweet.
But it accurately describes what my experience leveraging agents effectively has been like so far.

https://x.com/KentBeck/status/250733358307500032

Kent Beck 🌻 (@KentBeck) on X

for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change

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