How to delegate to AI: set goals and acceptance criteria, don't ask what it can do
dotey · x · 2026-11-11
A practical AI-delegation workflow: give the model a goal with clear acceptance criteria, some context and tool support, then let it run and inspect the gap.
When results fall short, diagnose systematically — insufficient context? wrong tools? unclear criteria? or genuine model limits — patch what you can, fill the rest manually. Asking AI what it can do is a trap: models don't know their own boundaries, especially with unfamiliar tools and skills. Treat it like a good manager treats employees: direction, not capability interviews. And after every model upgrade, retry previously failed tasks and simplify old verbose prompts.
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