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Here are some of the best AI agents you can use in 2026.

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Most people still think AI is just chat.
Ask a question. Get an answer. Move on.

That’s surface level.

What’s actually happening underneath is much bigger.

AI agents are not tools.

It’s systems that act.

• Agents that write code
• Agents that close deals
• Agents that run workflows
• Agents that replace entire roles

They don’t wait for instructions every time.
They execute.

And once they’re set up right, they keep running.

That’s where the leverage comes from.

Here’s how smart operators are using this:

• Code agents to ship products without dev teams
• Marketing agents to produce and scale content
• Sales agents to handle outreach and conversion
• Automation agents to connect everything behind the scenes
• Ops agents to run backend workflows quietly

This is the difference.

Some people are still experimenting.
Others are building systems that compound daily.

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Because the people who understand agents early
won’t need bigger teams later.

They’ll just need better systems.

P.S What’s the first task you would fully delegate to an AI agent today?

Thank God for what’s behind you.

Trust Him for what’s ahead.

The best is yet to come.

The first 90 days are a trap.

Everyone obsesses over them.

Books are written about them. 
Frameworks are built around them. 
Your boss is watching them.

I hear it all the time from executives:

They hit day 90, checked the box - and realized the hardest part has just begun.

Former GE CEO Jeff Immelt called books focused strictly on the first 90 days "kind of rubbish in many ways."

He's right.

A full executive transition takes 12-18 months.

The 90-day obsession promotes a dangerous lie - that your transition is a short-term event with a finish line.

Here's what actually happens after day 90:

Research shows 45% of executives need between 4-12 months just to determine the solutions to their role's initial strategic questions.

Key stakeholders typically give a new leader 9 to 12 months to finalize their leadership team and present a definitive action plan.

The real early wins? They need to land by month 6 - not month 3.

And it’s only around the 100-day mark that you officially 'own' the team.

That’s when you can no longer point to what you inherited.

The real transition work begins after the 90-day honeymoon ends.

Unpopular truth.

Choose your hard.

The older I get, the more I realize that being smart has very little to do with success.

And when I say "smart," I mean those book smarts back in school.

The people who actually succeed in this world are the doers.

The people who can't be held back from starting, shipping, iterating, improving, and reshipping.

Those are the people who win.
Those are the people who run the world.

Sure, being academically intelligent can be helpful, but I see so many people who are too smart for their own good.

They overanalyze, overthink, overplan, and just get caught in a cycle of doing absolutely nothing.

If I can encourage you to do something today, it's this:

Move one thing forward.

A post.
An essay.
A newsletter.
A product.
A service.
Something.
Anything!

Action has a way of clearing up all of that overthinking you've become so accustomed to.

If you struggle with this, I write about rethinking how you work, earn, and live to over 180,000 readers.

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And we didn't use AI the way you'd think...

Most founders are using AI for content incorrectly.
And honestly, the output gives it away every time.

They're asking AI to write for them instead of thinking with them.
That one thing is why so much AI content sounds exactly the same.

Here is what that actually looks like in practice...

"Write me a LinkedIn post about why founders need a personal brand."

The founders getting better results, prompt like this 👇

- "Here is my ICP, my content pillar, and 3 pain points my audience has shared this week." 
- "Help me find the most interesting angle and tell me why it would land."

One of those is outsourcing the thinking.
The other is using AI as a thinking partner.

The output quality is not even close.

If you want better results, you need to create smarter prompts.

Bring the context, the point of view, and the audience insight.
AI handles the structure and the refinement.

That's where leverage comes from.

If you're asking it to write from scratch with no context,
That's just a different kind of blank page.

The shift is simple, but most people never make it.

How do you use AI when creating content?
Drop it in the comments below !

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32 Claude shortcut hacks for faster prompts:

(worth saving for later)

Add one of these at the very start of your prompt.
Example: ELI5: [your topic] → get a simple, kid-friendly explanation.

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/ELI5 is used to explain as if to a 5-year-old.
/TLDL summarizes a very long text in a few lines.
/STEP-BY-STEP lays out reasoning step by step.
/CHECKLIST turns a response into a checklist.
/EXEC SUMMARY gives a quick executive-style summary.
/ACT AS makes ChatGPT speak in a specific role.
/BRIEFLY forces a very short answer.
/JARGON asks to use technical vocabulary.
/AUDIENCE adapts the response to a chosen audience.
/TONE changes the tone (formal, funny, dramatic, etc.).
/DEV MODE simulates a raw, technical developer style.
/PM MODE gives a project-management perspective.
/SWOT produces a strengths/weaknesses/opportunities/threats analysis.
/FORMAT AS enforces a specific format (table, JSON, etc.).
/COMPARE puts two or more things side by side.
/MULTI-PERSPECTIVE shows several points of view.
/CONTEXT STACK keeps multiple layers of context in memory.
/BEGIN WITH / END WITH forces starting or ending with something.
/ROLE: TASK: FORMAT: explicitly defines the role, the task, and the expected format.
/SCHEMA generates a structured outline or a data model.
/REWRITE AS: rephrases in a requested style.
/REFLECTIVE MODE prompts the AI to reflect on its own answer.
/SYSTEMATIC BIAS CHECK asks to identify biases.
/DELIBERATE THINKING forces slower, more thoughtful reasoning.
/NO AUTOPILOT forbids superficial, autopilot responses.
/EVAL-SELF asks for a critical self-evaluation of the response.
/PARALLEL LENSES examines from several angles in parallel.
/FIRST PRINCIPLES rebuilds from fundamental basics.
/CHAIN OF THOUGHT shows intermediate reasoning.
/PITFALLS identifies possible traps and errors.
/METRICS MODE expresses answers with measures and indicators.
/GUARDRAIL sets strict boundaries not to cross.

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