AI agents don’t need better prompts. They need better goals
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Meta Muse joining Gemini Spark, ChatGPT Work, and Claude Cowork shows the center of gravity is shifting from chat to goal-driven agents wired into tools and data. For operators, the hard problem is now defining safe, high-value objectives and guardrails—prompt engineering alone won’t get you durable leverage.
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