Working Notes on Agent Systems/Brad Zhang

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In addition to maintaining good taste in product design, design concepts, user psychology, and interactive

In addition to maintaining good taste in product design, design concepts, user psychology, and interactive systems, and being sensitive to continuous updates and iterations...

July 20, 2025 · 1 min read

In addition to maintaining good taste in product design, design concepts, user psychology, and interactive systems, and being sensitive to continuous updates and iterations, the most important thing is to be able to deeply understand which capabilities of an AI product can be combined with AI, and to know the boundaries and upper limits of AI.

This is not easy.

You cannot deeply perceive such abstract things by simply asking some people or reading a few articles.

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