# 2026-02-03 Developing [[publish/human skills in the age of autonomous systems|human skills in the age of autonomous systems]] suggests a helpful metaphor to avoid most of the hype around technology: If the car crashes is it fault of the vehicle for not being "intelligent" enough? Or the fault of the driver for not being *judicious* enough? Automated tools are powerful enough as of this moment, that is more helpful to see failures of an LLM/Agent/etc as a lack of clear *direction* by you the driver/mentor/developer. The neat thing about files like `CLAUDE.md` and `AGENT.md` is that they allow you to *drive* the car in the way that *you* want. What's your style? What inspires confidence? What makes you feel in control? What would *you* do if you had to do *everything* yourself? **Write it down**. The idea behind "the hottest new programming language is English" is that you need to start writing a **verify specific type of English.** Think about how you would teach your friend to cook. You would start slow, but then build upon past knowledge. What does this look like in the autonomous tool(s) you use today?