The Mental Framework for Unlocking Agentic Workflows

📌 This article was originally presented as a talk at the inaugural Claude Code Manila meetup (March 5, 2026). After several requests from the attendees to share the slides, I've decided to instead publish them as a full article here. I figured that this was a more effective medium to share my insights on reliable long-running agentic workflows. The Beginner's Mark One of the most common mistakes that I see people make when they've just started out chatting with AI is dump everything into the sa