Deciding Between AI Prompts, Skills, Pipelines, UI Control Surfaces, & Agent Delegation

One of the main things I’ve been struggling with as my comprehension and ability to execute on my ideas with AI has grown is: when to use each element? Right now, I guess I see five different distinct ways to solve the same sets of task-based or process/workflow-based problems. They go something like this: Use natural language prompting in sequence in order to achieve a specific goal. Honestly, in many cases, this still works just fine (to the extent that it works at all, which is maybe debatable separately), especially for unclear tasks or one-off goals. It’s a good way to explore and see what can work. And anyway, it’s the basis of all the other methods. But, critically, if you’re trying to set up processes that you can run repeatedly, and get more or less consistent results, then you might at worst run into complications, or at best, spend a lot more time for the same quality of outputs. Whether that’s an issue depends of course on the specific use case. Develop a skill file to…