Archive - agents&me

I told my best agent to stop, she was right. (Kudos to Maya)

How my AI customer success agent handled a ticket sold for a past date and a five-seat giveaway that drew 39 people.

43 mins ago • Tom Even

Don't be a slot machine prompter, GO ABC

One-line prompts get you "good enough". GO ABC is how to brief an AI agent instead, with two briefs rewritten before and after.

Oct 12 • Tom Even

Taste is a no with a reason

T.A.S.T.E, five questions for managing AI agents, and the one part of the work that stays yours.

Oct 8 • Tom Even

September 2026

September: the good, the bad & the ugly

Month seven of running a business with AI agents.

Sep 29 • Tom Even

Do my AI agents really need 54 soul files?

My AI agents run on personality files I've never tested. So I asked the agent who writes them now.

Sep 22 • Tom Even

Replace yourself first

This month my agent designed my website better than I could. The 20-minute exercise I did next, before someone does it to you.

Sep 14 • Tom Even

The management mirror🪞

Hundreds of people, the same workshop, the same AI tools. Who walks out with a working agent team comes down to one skill, and it is not technical.

Sep 8 • Tom Even

Nobody on my team knew how to make a video. Including me.

Sixty days later they run a video studio. Here is the learning loop I built for them, what the tuition cost, and one move you can run tonight.

Sep 2 • Tom Even

August 2026

The name was never for the machine

What is an agent? why to give it a name? is it all primitive god-making?

Aug 23 • Tom Even

My best friend is now 13 text files

I cloned the person who taught me how to think. Here is how it works, and the part it still gets wrong.

Aug 17 • Tom Even

I gave five agents the keys and left the room

The most expensive model I have was about to expire, and I could not think of one thing to ask it. So I stopped asking.

Aug 11 • Tom Even

Aliens & what to ask an AI model smarter than you

Three directions, one triage rule and three prompts to steal.

Aug 4 • Tom Even

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