The actual prompt: 'make a Slack with the new hire and help him get set up'
shakoistsLog · x · 2026-10-05
Follow-up to the author's agent-based onboarding trick, sharing the actual instruction: "make a Slack with the new hire and help him get set up." Reinforcing the point that you can simply ask agents to do real work — most people just don't push it far enough.
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