Overview
Build capability in three layers:
- Acquire knowledge. Learn the concepts that govern the work: architecture, interfaces, debugging,
testing, deployment, product constraints, and the other fundamentals required by the mission.
- Build skill through repetition. Perform the work enough times that you can recognize common
patterns and execute the procedure without relying entirely on explanation.
- Develop wisdom in context. Make decisions in real projects, observe their consequences, and learn
when a technically valid technique is appropriate or inappropriate.
- Encode repeated procedures. Once a workflow has been performed successfully many times, turn it
into a reusable skill for planning, reviewing, or implementation.
- Keep judgment active. Use the agent to increase execution capacity, not to remove yourself from
decisions you are responsible for making.
- Improve communication bandwidth. Practice describing goals, constraints, and trade-offs in plain
language. Use dictation when it helps you express complete context more efficiently.
- Maintain an experimental mindset. Try new workflows, observe the effect, and keep only the
changes that improve the system.
A useful self-assessment is to ask: "What work am I delegating, and would I know how to judge a strong result without the agent?" A negative answer identifies a capability gap that should be addressed directly.