A field guide to working with AI
Parenting Your AI
AI is powerful enough to need more than instructions. This is a practical series about giving it judgment, values, boundaries, and better habits.
22 essaysRead in order or follow your curiosity
The curriculum
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The Problem
2 essaysBefore you build more capable AI, understand the quiet failures that happen when power arrives before judgment.
01Your AI has all the power and none of the wisdom. That's your problem to fix.02Rules only cover what you anticipated. Values cover the rest.
Begin this chapter The Character
2 essaysThe limits, humility, and self-awareness that give an AI skill a recognisable shape.
01The most important thing you can teach your AI is what it will never do02You're responsible for decisions your AI made while you weren't looking
Begin this chapter The Craft
4 essaysA thoughtful chapter in the journey toward better AI practice.
01How to write a skill that doesn't break02How to make your AI think, not just answer03The six values I encode into every AI skill I build04How to keep an AI skill working six months after you built it
Begin this chapter The Field
4 essaysWhat these ideas look like in real teams, real systems, and the places where trust has to be earned.
01How I diagnose AI failures faster than anyone else in the room02The AI failure nobody talks about, and how to spot it in your logs03What I wish someone had told me before I started building AI skills at work04What senior AI engineers actually do differently, and what the rest of us can learn from it
Begin this chapter The Practice
8 essaysSmall, repeatable habits for directing, correcting, and organising AI so better work becomes easier to make.
01The fastest way to make AI better at your work is to tell it when it’s wrong02Stop adding instructions. Fix the prompt.03The single habit that will make all your AI work better04Give examples. It is the most underrated thing you can do with AI.05The fastest way to make AI better at your work is to tell it when it’s wrong06Stop adding instructions. Fix the prompt.07The single habit that will make all your AI work better08Give examples. It is the most underrated thing you can do with AI.
Begin this chapter Safety
2 essaysThe checks that keep useful skills from becoming invisible risks inside your work.
01Before you install that skill, scan it. One in four has a problem.02Before you install that skill, scan it. One in four has a problem.
Begin this chapter