One-sentence prompt: Agnes 2.5 Pro audits codebase and changes daily digest to top 5
thisguyknowsai · x · 2026-09-10
A user shared their experience with Agnes 2.5 Pro Beta: they have a project that sends the top 10 AI stories daily and wanted to cut it to 5. Instead of digging through the code to find where that logic lives, they simply told the agent:
> Go into my AI News project, audit the code, and change it to only send me the top 5 stories.
That was the entire prompt — the agent located and modified the logic itself. A replier joked "you were never a good prompter," underscoring how such agents reduce the need for carefully engineered prompts.
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