Anti-Patterns
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Anti-Patterns
The Premature Agent Building agents before skills. Start with recipes. Graduate when the domain earns it.
The Prompt Engineer’s Trap Spending hours optimising prompts instead of building infrastructure. Prompts matter less than architecture.
The Integration Maximalist Connecting every possible service. Each integration is overhead. Add for friction, not preemptively.
The God Agent One agent that does everything. This is just AI with extra steps. Build focused agents instead.
The Automate Everything Automating before understanding. Do tasks manually first. Understand the pattern. Then automate.
The Three Repetitions Rule If you haven’t done something at least three times manually, you don’t understand it well enough to automate it.