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# The key work to be done 2026

https://youtube.com/shorts/nZA-w45rfAQ?si=5N1GZBnb8MXPKbX7

For many of us, we have been trying to figure out how to make these models help us do our work faster all year long. And that's been most of the conversation I've had with folks. Guess what? The models keep getting better, and we have to keep skilling up and in this situation, the skill that we need to learn, whether we're technical or non-technical, is, 

**How do we define a piece of work correctly so that we can assign it to a long-running agent**.

That is what feels like 2026 about chat gpt. 5.2. That's what feels novel new and super interesting. And if you can't Define that work, you are going to be behind people who can really Define it well and come out with a fully fledged analysis from a deep data set or a deep problem in the code or what have you and then get an answer that they can use and run with?

··That would normally have taken them hours many