Picking Mountains Worth Climbing

What you need to know about working with AI agents

most people are already losing the ai skill race

they're using agents backwards. typing before they know where they're going. like asking for directions without a destination

openai and google's IMO results just revealed something important. when you give ai agents a formally defined cognitive end state—a precise description of where you want to arrive—they become pathfinding machines

this isn't theoretical anymore. this is how i've been building with Amp

i define exactly what i want the code to do. not vaguely. precisely. like drawing a blueprint before construction. then amp generates the cognitive path—the actual code infrastructure—to get there. it DOES NOT have to be a long block of text. it only has to be:

• clear

• precise

• well-defined

imagine standing in a field. you see a mountain but there's no path. what today's agents do is lay down the cognitive roads between where you are and where you want to be

before 2025, only human minds could do this. could take an abstract goal and build the mental bridges to reach it

that monopoly is over

your new job, starting today:

pick the mountains worth climbing

describe them so clearly a mathematician could sketch them

let the agent build the cognitive roads

the window is closing. the people who master this now will build things others can't even imagine. the ones who don't? they'll still be wandering in that field, typing aimlessly into chat windows and groping at a destination they never defined

this works best for formally definable problems. when you can articulate exactly where you want to go. these are not the only types of problems we humans face, but there are plenty of them

Amp gets me to my cognitive end state when I follow this practice. every time

what are you waiting for?