Awhile back I helped @Mary Julia Cordero with some issues she was having. I did a writeup in the classroom about it: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/classroom/b5143824?md=06c0cb5b8f884a319cad846a2bdd098a I wanted to turn this into a video to help explain the tips as I think this is a lesson everyone new to using AI has to learn along the way. Mary asked me her question as a part of my back to basics series. If you want to ask a question and have me answer it like this, drop a comment here: https://www.skool.com/cliefnotes/new-classroom-series-back-to-basics?p=32285243

A few days in. Starting to see where the Clief Notes AI is actually becoming useful. Some of you are using it to figure out where to start. Others are asking specific questions and getting pointed back to lessons or drops they didn’t even know existed. And some are basically using it as search: “Have we covered this before?” That last one alone saves a lot of scrolling. @Anthony Brady shared a really good example of how he’s been using it. He said the agent has been helping him find the right lessons, figure out where to go next, and actually apply the material to what he’s building. He’s even been pushing it with harder questions, and when it doesn’t know something, it tells him instead of just making something up. What I really liked was how he described using the tools together: The agent helps him navigate. NotebookLM helps him go deeper. And Decster keeps him moving through the course, completing assignments, and staying active in the community. That’s exactly what we want this to become. Not another AI tool you open once and forget about. Something that actually helps you use everything already inside Clief Notes and keep moving forward. We’ve also caught a few questions where the agent could’ve pointed somewhere better. Keep sending those. The more you use it, the better we can make the experience. This thing should get more useful as we see how you actually use it. If you haven’t tried it yet, start simple. Ask it the next question you would normally post in the community. Have you tried it already? If not, comment “Navigator” and I’ll send you access to it.

Anyone else getting pumped? I know I am. Mission Control setup and ready for countdown

I have a client in Australia who's looking for someone who understands ICM and can help him work on his software. Obviously he would prefer someone a bit more technical, but he's happy to have some people who are trying to learn as well. It's a pretty large software, but he's created a pretty good automated system and obviously he's using my methods so it's very well organized. Anyone out here looking for a project to take on the practice or learn more? Or is there anyone in the morning to get a little bit more work done at a higher level? He's looking for multiple skill levels.

Not sure who's seen the meme. I found it pretty funny for a second until I thought about how true it actually is. After being let go from my last job as an SRE (Site Reliability Engineer) with a pretty good severance package I decided that I'm in no rush to get back onto the bandwagon. I spent the next 9 month doing pretty much anything that is not working. Had a double hernia surgery, slowly recovered, went out a lot, traveled, spent a decent amount of time snowboarding and in the mountains. The last 4 months I traveled through South-East Asia. Started interviewing for a position while I was in Vietnam and was hired as a Cloud Engineer for a Cyber Security firm in the beginning of the month. I'm saying all that to highlight my lengthy disconnection from the state of affairs when it comes to using AI in the workplace. My current employer expects lightning speed in everything. Something that usually took at least a week to write, test and validate properly, including all the quality gates for review and deployment is now expected to be done till end of business day. This leads to an interesting conundrum. I find that people have no idea what they are doing and delivering and have no time to even try to figure it out. Junior people are writing code that they don't understand using Claude, but with speed 10 times faster than any Senior Engineer I've ever met. They immediately push their code and the more Senior engineer that is supposed to review their work is pretty much doing the same thing as he is pressed for time like their is no tomorrow. They ask Claude to review the code and immediately push the changes up the chain. So it's basically Claude writing code that later is further reviewed by Claude, fixed by Claude and pushed by Claude to production. In this scenario I don't think we're even a condom for Claude anymore. If we are, we are definitely a broken one. There is no actual review, no actual quality standards or gates. What's left is an exhausting sprint that leaves everyone worse off than when they started. Maybe we maximized shareholder value at least. What's striking to me is that this is the state of affairs in a security provider. Can't imagine what's happening in less rigid companies/environments.