AI agent tips & tricks
Specific, practical habits for getting more out of the agent tools we cover — not generic prompting advice.
Cursor's agent mode makes changes directly to your codebase, which makes it powerful and occasionally overconfident. These are habits that make the difference between a clean diff and a mess to clean up.
Devin bills by compute (ACUs), which means how you scope a ticket is the real cost lever — not the plan you're on. These are the habits that keep it productive instead of burning credits on false starts.
Manus works asynchronously — you hand it a brief and it comes back with a finished artifact, rather than going back and forth like a chat. That changes what makes a prompt work.
Lindy wires AI agents across email, calendar and your other apps without code. The gap between a demo that works once and an automation you can trust daily is mostly about how you build it.
n8n's free, open-source Community Edition is the same workflow engine behind its paid cloud plan — the tradeoffs are about hosting and structure, not missing features.