a builder set one rule for their agent. then they set seventeen.
Reddit r/artificial / 6/3/2026
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Key Points
- A builder created iterative rules for an AI agent after it kept producing statements that were technically true but wrong due to missing context.
- Each new rule fixed one failure mode (context, timing, and when to avoid asking for clarification), but also revealed new ways the agent could still disrupt tasks.
- After seventeen rules, the builder realized the rules did not specify what the agent should do directly; they documented the builder’s own misunderstandings of what they actually wanted.
- The article frames the set of rules as a self-portrait and an ongoing learning process rather than a way to simply make the agent “smarter.”
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