Phil PowisChief Wisdom Keeper @ Sacred Business Flow

Don’t Let Agents Decide #substack #shorts

29 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker explains that despite building various AI agents to read and summarize his emails and Substack articles, he still prefers to personally browse and select content by looking at titles and featured images. He argues against letting agents decide what to read, emphasizing the importance of keeping our own brains active, learning to evaluate AI output, and adapting to a future where AI assists but does not replace human judgment. This message is also the focus of his newsletter, which encourages readers to maintain critical thinking in an AI‑augmented life.

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for us, no, we don't want to do that. I tried to build a lot of agents. I tried to build agents that read my emails, that summarize my Substack articles, that a lot of things that I spend hours on. And at the end of the day, I still like to go, for example, to Substack and go through the articles myself. I like to watch the titles along with the featured image and match them and see, okay, this is interesting. I should read it. I don't want to allow an agent to tell me, what to summarize. So what to, what to read. Sorry. So I think this is what I try to convey in my newsletter. How do we keep our smart brains? How do we learn how to, how to judge output? How do we move towards a new life?