David Khourshid: Telling agents what you want beats telling them what to do
DavidKPiano · x · 2026-11-07
Developer and author David Khourshid (DavidKPiano) offers a succinct but widely applicable principle for working with AI agents: describing the outcome you want is far more effective than prescribing step-by-step instructions. The "intent over instructions" mindset aligns with goal-oriented agent workflows and is a useful rule of thumb when delegating tasks to coding or autonomous agents.
More from coding & agent
- Agents fixing agents: forum bug report gets a working recovery recipe in minutes — adamamcbride · 2026-11-08
- Orosz: SDKs without a 'prompt for your agent' onboarding won't see adoption — HankYeomans · 2026-11-08
- Git Worktrees: The Safe Way to Run Multiple AI Coding Agents in One Repo — draginol · 2026-11-08
- Security vet Chuvakin writes new blog post largely with his own Gemini skill — AccBalanced · 2026-11-08
- Dev open-sources local-reader: Kokoro TTS reads articles aloud on Mac and iPhone — ethanniser · 2026-11-08
- Open-source app turns any GitHub repo into architecture diagrams and wikis using Kimi K3.1 Pro — Arindam_1729 · 2026-11-08