Botsitting

After yet another push from senior leadership, I’m finally getting around to trying to do something more interesting with our internal AI resources than just chatting with Gemini. Specifically, I’m using Antigravity and writing agent skills to query various databases, read my meeting notes, read the news, and smash it all together in the hopes of surfacing something interesting that I may otherwise have missed. The results so far are encouraging; and, the effort is making me appreciate all the commentary around “botsitting,” which refers to all the work required to get the agent to do actually the thing and, critically, do it well enough to actually be better than whatever you were doing before. When you venture beyond the typical chatbot and code-generation use cases, the botsitting factor gets real. The back-and-forth looks something like this: Me: /news [this invokes me skill to read all the stuff and tell me what’s changed lately] Agent: [Spins for seven-ish minutes.] Okay, I made…