I tried Claude Sonnet 5 with prompts that ask it to finish the job, not just answer the question — and that's where the AI war is going
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The competition is shifting from chat quality to end-to-end task completion — who can own the workflow, not the answer. If you’re building on assistants, design prompts and integrations around “done states” and handoffs, or your product becomes a thin veneer over someone else’s execution engine.
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