I’m currently using AI to research ideas, organize projects, and help me build my business. Right now I’d say I’m at the building structured systems stage, but I’m still learning a lot as I go. One thing that caught my attention from this lesson is the idea of giving AI the right information for the specific job instead of throwing everything at it at once. I’m already using different AI tools for different jobs, and I want them to work together without everything getting confusing. I’m excited to learn how to build better systems and eventually have different AI agents handling the things they’re best at, like helping me research, find leads, stay organized, and take care of repetitive work. My goal is to save time, reduce the amount of stuff I have to manage manually, and build something that can eventually keep working even when I’m not sitting there telling it what to do.

I just watched the @iscalelabs breakdown of Jake’s system, and what caught my attention was how little he actually had to tell the agent once the files were set up right. The “Control Your Agent” example was a good one. The AI started from one file, followed the instructions, found the other files it needed, and kept going without him having to explain every step in the chat. The biggest thing I took from that is that I repeat myself to AI way too much. If the instructions are already written down in the right place, I shouldn’t have to keep explaining the same thing every time I start a new chat. That’s something I can use in the system I’m building right now. I want the AI to know where to look, find the right information, and keep moving without me having to walk it through everything over and over.

This community is large and it moves fast. That's the good part and it's also the problem: valuable posts get buried, the same questions get re-asked instead of found, and spammers show up wherever there's an audience. These guidelines are what keeps the room worth showing up to. Read them once. You won't need them again, because most of this is what you'd do anyway. New here? Start with Jake's welcome post and the Foundation course. This post is about how we behave, not where to begin. 1. Build in public. Post the thing while it's half working. A half-finished build is more useful to everyone else than the polished writeup you'll never get around to, and you'll get corrected before you've spent a week going the wrong way. 2. Teach what you learn. The day you figure something out is the day you're best at explaining it, because you still remember exactly what confused you. A month later you've forgotten the hard part and your explanation gets worse. If you cracked something this week, that's a post. Nobody has to earn the right to ask a question here, but this place only works because people come back and answer them once they can. 3. Ask good questions. Specific beats polite. "How should I structure this?" gets three vague answers. "I have a 40 file client folder, the model keeps loading the wrong context file, here's my CLAUDE.md" gets a real one. Say what you tried, what happened, and what you expected instead. A more in depth guide: https://dontasktoask.com The flip side of this: "Anyone here?", "Help please", and one line questions with no context may get removed. Not to be harsh, but because nobody can answer them. 4. Give credit. If you built on someone's skill, template, folder structure or comment, tag them. It costs you nothing and it's the reason people keep publishing their work here instead of keeping it. A lot of the best material in this community started as somebody's reply on somebody else's post.

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Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.