Folders are no longer just places to organize your files. They represent the parts of the problem, idea or the process that you are working on. The folder structure that Jake taught us, is giving a clear path for AI to think through the work. So folders become shared places where you and your AI can work together. This is my main takeaway so far. I'm curious if anyone else sees it the same way.

Jake and I made it across the pond. We're here for London Tech Week all week. We got invited out for this one, which still feels surreal to type. We've got multiple pitch slots in front of investors over the next few days to talk about what we're building at Eduba and where this community is headed. Big moments lined up. Big rooms. Big swings. 🚀 If you're at the conference, DM me! Would genuinely love to meet anyone from the community in person. We'll be all over the Techscaler booth and floating between sessions. Even if it's just a hello and a handshake, hit me up. 🙏 And if you've got a second, send some good energy our way this week. We're about to walk into some rooms that could change the trajectory of what we're building. Wish us luck. Light a candle. Whatever your version of that is. We'll take all of it. Now to the real reason you're here. 👇 ---- 👇 🏆 7-DAY LEADERBOARD WINNER: @Bas Rosario 🏆 🔥 Bas just won it AGAIN. Back-to-back. Last week he won as a Premium member and we converted him to free Premium for life. This week he's already Premium for life, so we're bumping him up. ✨ Free VIP for life. ✨ The Drawing Room. High Tea. Bespoke folder builds with Jake. All of it. Forever. No charge. ---- ⏰ The 7-day clock just reset. Next Monday we crown the next winner. Could be you. 🎯 How it works: - 📝 Post bad ass stuff - 💬 Help people in the comments - 🛠️ Share what you're building, what's working, what's breaking - ❤️ Engage with other members' posts The leaderboard tracks all of it. Whoever sits at #1 next Monday wins. ---- 🎁 The prize, depending on where you're at: 🆓 Free member? You get lifetime Premium, free ⭐ Already Premium? We convert your Premium so you stop paying 👑 Already VIP? We convert your VIP so you stop paying Either way, you stop paying. Forever.

Quick community poll: when developing reusable workspaces, which model do you think creates the best long-term output? Curious which structure people trust most for durable, reusable work.

I'm Karli, Bas's wife. I just joined the community and wanted to introduce myself. If you've spent any amount of time here, there's a good chance you've seen Bas around. He seems to be everywhere. 😂 The good news is you don't have to worry about me posting nearly as much as he does. He does enough talking for both of us. And for anyone wondering: yes, he is exactly the same in person. In all seriousness, I have to give Bas credit for encouraging me to explore AI. Years ago, he told me I was way ahead of the curve when it came to AI and that I had a way of communicating with it that just made sense. He always said I was naturally good at prompting and getting great results, and honestly, that's a big part of what inspired me to learn more about AI and pursue it further. I also come from a graphic design background, and as someone who's neurodivergent, I've found that AI complements the way I think, learn, and solve problems. By day, I'm a hairstylist and educator in Southern California. I've been behind the chair for over a decade, specializing in international hairdressing with a focus on dimensional low maintenance hair color, and textured razor cutting. AI has become an important tool for me both professionally and personally. I use it for brainstorming, client communication, marketing, content creation, education, business planning, and learning new skills. The thing I'm most excited about right now is that I'm building an app for hairstylists. I don't come from a software development background, so it's been a huge learning experience, but AI has made me realize that building something like this is actually possible. I'm here to learn more about Claude, Claude Code, AI-assisted development, and to connect with other people who are exploring what these tools can do. Looking forward to learning from all of you!

This post is not for the ICM pro, there will be no talk of gates, scripts, or orchestration! This is for the person just starting out! @Karli Rosario Yes, I mean you! (And anyone else who may just be starting out with ICM) Seriously, I'm glad you found ICM. Let me give you the simplest version of it I know. ICM is a system of structured folders. Yes, the same folders you have been using on a computer for most of your life. The ones you stored photos in, & pirated music from Napster and LimeWire. That's it. I will take you through the process below. When working with AI, a lot of people are doing this 👇 You take a long prompt, feed the entire thing to AI at the beginning of your interaction, and spend time going back and forth with AI trying to get the outcome you want. (I'm not coming for you Karli, you are exceptionally good at this, but ICM will make your outcomes exceptionally better!) What is different about AI and prompting with ICM 👇 You take that same really long prompt and instead of giving it to the AI all at once in the beginning, you break it into steps, and each step gets its own folder, each folder gets its own piece of your large prompt, just 1 step from it, and you ordered the folders by when the steps happen in the workflow. You got it? Good 😊 ❤️‍🔥 -------------------Still a bit unclear, let's bake a cake. 💡 Here's an analogy I have success with (I picked this up way back in my VB programming days): Imagine teaching AI to bake a birthday cake. 🎂 The way most people do it: 👇 One giant prompt. "Bake a cake, here's the recipe, the frosting technique, the decorating style, the candle placement..." Then they hit enter and wait. The AI is juggling 40 instructions at once, and by step 30 it's forgotten step 3. The ICM way: 👇 Break the prompt/workflow into steps. Each step gets a folder. The first folder is your first step. Then you point the AI at the first step, and the first step is 00-birthday-cake: (Point the AI just means giving access to the folders to the AI, through uploading or direct local access, don't worry about that now, let's keep building our cake.)