Most people build one AI assistant, hand it every tool they can find, and wonder why it's slow, expensive, and vague. Here are the three settings that fix it, and a roster of fifteen you can install today.
Why your one big assistant keeps letting you down
You've probably done this. You wrote a long, careful prompt. You gave your assistant web search, file access, maybe a connection to your email. You told it to be thorough and accurate and to always cite its sources. And then you asked it to sort your inbox.
It took forty seconds to think about an email from your accountant. It cost you more than it should have. And when you asked it to research something genuinely hard an hour later, it was somehow no better at that than it was at the inbox.
The instinct is to fix the prompt. Add more rules. Be more specific. Tell it not to do the thing it just did.