'You can do better': the one-line neg that improves your AI agent's output
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-10-10
Aaron Francis shared a simple agent-prompting trick: replying "That's kinda disappointing. You can do better" after an agent's result pushes it to produce higher-quality output. Tana founder Daniel Lockyer boosted it saying he's stealing the technique.
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