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Dave Hulbert

@dave.engineer

Principal Engineer at Passenger in Bournemouth, UK. 🧪🧑‍💻🤖🚀

Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 26/01/2026

I'm convinced that the most important skill you can have for using AI agents is... delegation. It's almost exactly the same skill set as delegating to people. Maybe the main difference is that AI is trained not to need incentives. Are we all becoming managers now? Should we read HBR instead of HN?

- articulating goals, requirements and scope
- giving clear feedback
- decomposing tasks so they don't overlap for multiple workers
- allocating limited resources to agents
- understanding their capabilities and shortcomings
- giving appropriate tools
- delegating access and authority
- sharing the right details without explaining everything
- knowing what to trust when you can't see the details
- judging based on outcomes
- steering them when they know things you don't
- creatively making use of their expertise, even when it goes beyond your own
- juggling and context switching when delegating many tasks
- handling feedback when your instructions or assumptions were flawed

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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 02/12/2025

I made a tiny macOS utility to control your mouse pointer with the keyboard. Download and code: github.com/dave1010/Asd... Quick write up: dave.engineer/blog/2025/12...

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Dave Hulbert @dave.engineer · 17/10/2025

This is similar to a pattern I tried to get GPT-4 to follow. I remember struggling to get it to do even basic things. LLMs have come a long way in 2 years! The general idea was that you give it a generic system prompt and a list of guides, and the tools to read them.

List of guide prompt files in GitHub repo

System prompt that tells the LLM to read other guides

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