Thinking with Claude: why Cyborg writing works better than Centaur writing

In February this year, I wrote about why I stopped trying to engineer prompts and started delegating intent instead. That post argued the skill of working with AI is managerial, not technical. I still think that’s right. But over the last couple months I’ve noticed something else: even with good delegation, the AI’s output sometimes lands close to what I want and sometimes lands feeling oddly not…