TMI

AI agents overshare.

They create more documents, more paragraphs, more explanations, and more words. And if they’re writing code, they create more code, more comments, more tests, and more review items. More, more, more.

So much so that you can’t help but say, to yourself or out loud, “Shutup!”

I’ve said to my agent, “Too much! Be succinct, sparse, and more efficient. If you can use 2 words instead of 3, do that. Do not overexplain.”

We all have a friend or family member who is the same. How do you handle them?

It’s a different approach. We can be direct, terse, and even a bit rude with our agents. We wouldn’t use the same approach with a person. We’d probably try to be kinder.

With people, kindness means patience. With agents, kindness means constraints.