The Agent Asked Me, "Are Your Scoring Criteria Documented Somewhere I Can Reference?" It Made an Edi

Why It Matters

This illustrates AI agents shifting from passive tools to proactive collaborators that can analyze processes, prioritize work, and make methodological decisions—potentially accelerating automation and changing how experts validate and control outputs.

Summary

A user recounts how an AI agent transformed their workflow by asking targeted, operational questions about inputs, output formats, automation level, and scheduling rather than following generic setup prompts. The agent went further, querying whether the scoring criteria were documented—a sign it was reasoning about its task rather than just executing instructions. Without being prompted, it reviewed the user's scoring categories and autonomously selected the most automatable category to begin work on. The experience surprised the user, who reflected on two decades of manual editorial decisions now being suggested by an AI.

Original Description

The agent asked me, "are your scoring criteria documented somewhere I can reference?" It made an editorial decision about my own 20-year-old methodology. Had to sit with that one.

From "This AI Agent Built My Client Scorecard — And It Was Actually Good" — watch the full video: https://youtu.be/AgJ743tkZJ8

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