i build ai workflow tools for a living. was still stuck at level 2

designing agent-level systems — then manually copy-pasting content across six platforms like it was 2019

building at level 3. operating at level 2

the hardest part wasn't the tech. it was making myself the client

i build ai products. i'm also using them.

last week: manus or do it myself?

math said manus. reality said i'm faster and watching it anyway. claude cowork no better.

first mile = human (context, judgment, setup)
middle = ai (imperfectly)
last mile = human (oversight, decisions)

anthropic released skills for claude. portable folders that encode your workflows, standards, expertise—once. claude loads them automatically when relevant.

simple rule: if you'd write an sop for it,
you can build a skill for it.

www.linkedin.com/in/clivemoore/

you don't need 10 ai tools.

level 1: chat (claude, chatgpt, grok) $0-20/mo
level 2: automation (zapier, make, n8n) $0-600/mo
level 3: agent (manus, cowork, google ws) $30-500/mo

stack right. 70% disappears.
stack wrong. overpaying.

where are you overstacked?

I'm 55. Most people my age are winding down. I'm doing the opposite.

Not because I'm ambitious. Because I've watched too many organizations get run into the ground by the wrong people.

tried automating posts to 6 platforms with an ai agent yesterday

x failed (assumed i was verified). threads glitched. every platform needed manual video selection.

agent did 80%. last 20% still needed me.

if 70% can be automated, that tells you where to focus.

what's in your last mile?

Human centred design and workflows always

Don't know how to prompt AI?

Ask AI how to ask.

Recursive. Works every time.

Built Claude a memory system today. Three hours. Catch? Only works locally.

That's why GPT Studio connects every conversation, every thread.

Not hacks. Infrastructure.

Apparently I joined a cult last night.

Gilford Local Knights Society raised over $4,800 for Christmas 4 Community. Nice enough bunch of fellows.

P.S. I take horrible selfies.

"Pick one thing and obsess."

Great until that thing hits a wall you can't move.

Real focus = pivoting to what you control while the blockers sort themselves out.

Discipline isn't loyalty to one project. It's refusing to wait.

"Hallucination" lets the AI industry off the hook.

Confabulation is the word. The model isn't broken—it's filling gaps with confident nonsense. As designed.

Humans do it too.

That's why @workilo.bsky.social keeps humans in the loop.

Everyone's excited about AI agents.

Wrong excitement.

We're watching the industry burn down perfectly good software by slapping LLMs into everything and calling it "Agent 2.0."

@workilo.bsky.social take the chaos out of your process