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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.
The Bottleneck Moved to Review: My SDLC After AI Writes Most of the Code
When a machine writes most of your diff, the constraint stops being how fast you type and becomes how well you review. Here is the SDLC I actually run (the provenance audit, the sandbox, the CI backstops, and the three questions I ask every AI-authored change) plus the parts of review that don't compress and never will.
Coding is not fun anymore?
Coding isn't what it used to be. AI implements faster than we can type, and agents are automating our tasks. But there's a bright side: we're evolving from implementors into architects and reviewers. Here's how to survive the shift.