Tag / The engineering notebook
Agentic Workflow
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Ask, or It Will Guess: Question-Asking Is the Core Skill of Agentic Work
Models almost never ask you what you meant: across ambiguous questions, answer rates run above 95% and clarification barely registers. Repairing that in conversation makes it worse: underspecified multi-turn runs measure a 39% average performance drop, driven by a 112% jump in unreliability, and the effect shows up from two turns onward. The leverage is no longer in writing better prompts. It is in forcing the questions out before the first answer attempt, and in asking the questions afterward that prove you understood what you shipped.
OpenClaw: Security is the Final Boss
OpenClaw, formerly Clawdbot, runs a personal AI agent locally and wires it straight into your messaging apps. Its gateway architecture, the security failures that followed, and what building a safe autonomous ecosystem would actually take.