Ethan Mollick's 'Twilight of the Chatbots': Stop Treating LLMs Like a Spellbook, Manage Them Like Literal Executors

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Mollick's thesis (covered by Forbes July 14) argues the chatbot era is closing: the winning skill is no longer prompt-craft but management — giving agents explicit goals, output definitions, quality bars, and tests, then supervising rather than babysitting. It reframes 'prompting tricks' as juniors' work and specs-plus-oversight as the durable senior skill. For a solo builder running agent fleets, it's a concrete argument to invest in eval harnesses and acceptance criteria over clever prompts.