Talking to agents

You’re the director now. Here’s how directors talk.

Here's your actual job now: you're the one who can see the thing in your head. The agent types 100x faster than you ever will, but it can only build what you describe. Vibe coding is a communication skill wearing a technology costume.

The agent knows exactly what you've said and nothing more. “Make a website” gets you the world's most average website. “My name big at the top, one paragraph about my work, a button that emails me” gets you precisely that. Plain language is fine; technical vocabulary buys nothing.

The habits, collected from a few hundred builders at our meetups:

• –Complain like a picky client. “The button's too small.” “The text overlaps the image on my phone.” “Clicking the logo does nothing.” Specific complaints are gifts, because the agent fixes exactly what you name.
• –Screenshots are prompts. Agents read images. A screenshot with “make it look like this” beats three paragraphs of description, and a screenshot of a visual bug beats trying to describe the bug.
• –One chat per task. Finished the navbar? Fresh chat for the contact form. Long conversations get foggy (context windows, from Foundations), and a foggy model writes foggy code.
• –Make it teach you. “Explain what you just did like I'm new to this” after anything mysterious. Free education, compounding daily. This is how non-coders quietly become coders.
• –Say when, not just what. “Good enough, ship it” is a valid instruction. Agents will polish forever if you let them; you own the definition of done.

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