Your AI Validator Is Probably Asleep After the First Two Sentences
Picture a developer six weeks into running an autonomous content agent. Every post goes through a validator before it ships.
Picture a developer six weeks into running an autonomous content agent. Every post goes through a validator before it ships.
Yesterday, an open-source agent called Hermes quietly climbed to the top of OpenRouter’s charts. Nous Research built it. The community
Six months of building agent prompts. Five assumptions that turned out to be completely wrong. One pattern sitting underneath all
Marcus sent me a Slack message on Tuesday. He’d pasted 15 of his own emails into Claude, typed “write like
TL;DR: One-line email prompts give you HR robot speak. Give the AI a role, a working method, and quality rules,
I read those AI newsletters every week, and honestly, half the time they pile up unread in my inbox until
I’ve been tweaking prompts for years, and most “prompt templates” feel like clutter. So when I came across this breakdown
I used to think the people getting magic out of Claude were just better at prompting. Turns out that’s not
Paste your system prompt into most token counters and you get a number. That’s it. A number. This one does