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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Watch the intro video and introduce yourself in the intro post here 2. Start with The Foundation (free course). Concepts, folder architecture, prompting framework. Everything else builds on this. 3. Check in at the bottom of each lesson. Polls, discussion posts, other members working through the same stuff. Use them. 4. When you're ready to build real things, move to Implementation Playbooks (Level 2). When you're ready to build your own tools, Building Your Stack (Level 3). 5. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง GOOD MORNING FROM LONDON! ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
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. ๐Ÿš€ 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. ๐Ÿ™ 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. ๐Ÿ‘‡ ---- ๐Ÿ‘‡ ๐Ÿ† 7-DAY LEADERBOARD WINNER: @Bas Rosario ๐Ÿ† ๐Ÿ”ฅ 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. โœจ Free VIP for life. โœจ The Drawing Room. High Tea. Bespoke folder builds with Jake. All of it. Forever. No charge. ---- โฐ The 7-day clock just reset. Next Monday we crown the next winner. Could be you. ๐ŸŽฏ How it works: - ๐Ÿ“ Post bad ass stuff - ๐Ÿ’ฌ Help people in the comments - ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ Share what you're building, what's working, what's breaking - โค๏ธ Engage with other members' posts The leaderboard tracks all of it. Whoever sits at #1 next Monday wins. ---- ๐ŸŽ The prize, depending on where you're at: ๐Ÿ†“ Free member? You get lifetime Premium, free โญ Already Premium? We convert your Premium so you stop paying ๐Ÿ‘‘ Already VIP? We convert your VIP so you stop paying Either way, you stop paying. Forever.
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๐Ÿ† WEEKLY COMP #7: THE OPERATOR ๐Ÿ†
๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM ๐ŸŽŸ๏ธ Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. ---- ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง We're back. Good morning from London. ๐Ÿ‘‹ Thanks for the patience last week. Jake and I needed a few days to breathe before London Tech Week kicked off, and you all responded with nothing but support. We don't take that for granted. Now let's get back to building. ---- ๐Ÿ“‹ THE CHALLENGE Build a folder-based AI operator that handles ONE operational workflow end-to-end. You pick the workflow. This week's deliverable is one operator folder that someone could drop into a Claude project and use to handle a real business workflow without babysitting. ---- ๐ŸŽฏ PICK YOUR WORKFLOW The workflow is yours. Pick something specific. Pick something you'd actually use. A few sparks to get you thinking: - ๐ŸŽซ Customer support triage (which tier handles this ticket?) - โœ… Content review and approval - ๐Ÿ“จ Lead intake and qualification - ๐Ÿ’ธ Refund request handler - ๐Ÿค Partnership pitch evaluator - ๐ŸŽ™๏ธ Podcast guest pitch sorter - ๐Ÿ’ผ Freelance project intake - ๐Ÿ“„ Resume screen for one specific role - ๐Ÿ“… Meeting request triage (book, decline, delegate) The more specific, the better. "Customer support" is too broad. "Refund request triage for an ecommerce store doing under 200 orders per month" is right. ๐Ÿ“Ž If you want a fully written client brief as a reference, the attached PDF walks through one example. Don't build the example. Use it as a template for how to think about scoping your own operator. ---- ๐Ÿ—‚๏ธ THE METHODOLOGY If this is your first comp, welcome. Here's what you need to know: This week (and every week) you're learning interpretable context methodology. Folders as architecture. Each file does one job well. Your operator is a folder with five things: - ๐Ÿ“„ identity.md (who the operator is and what workflow they own) - ๐Ÿ“ rules.md (the decision logic: criteria, edge cases, escalation rules) - ๐Ÿ’ฌ examples.md (decisions in action, including at least one edge case) - ๐Ÿ“š reference/ (checklists, templates, rubrics) - ๐Ÿ“– README.md (how to use it)
Your AI expert council is probably making worse decisions than a single prompt
Everyone's stacking AI experts into "councils" right now. Here's what nobody mentions: most of them produce blander advice than a single good prompt. I've been building multi-agent systems for a while, and the council pattern is seductive. Load six marketing legends, let them debate, synthesize the genius. Three things I learned the hard way: 1. Councils regress to the mean. Put Cialdini, Godin, and Vaynerchuk in a room and "synthesize" their answers and you get generic marketing advice wearing three nametags. The fix isn't a better synthesizer. Stop resolving the disagreement. Let the tension stand and make one agent own the call. 2. The debate is where your budget dies. Distilling a book into a tight skill file is cheap. Having agents argue in real time is not. If "minimal tokens" is your pitch, the preprocessing is doing the work and the roundtable is the luxury. 3. It doesn't make the model smarter. Cold Claude already does a soft version of all of this. What the structure buys you is named, sharp, predictable behavior. Say that honestly โ€” the moment you claim it makes the AI "smarter," you've oversold it. None of this means don't build councils. It means build them with your eyes open. The real test for any council: do your experts actually disagree, or do they just agree in different vocabulary? If it's the second, you built one expert and gave it six hats. (Riffing off the systems thread from @Curtis Hays that @David Vogel highlighted for us and the 'systems' build โ€” good work worth pressure-testing.)
Patrick Collison Needs Help
The CEO of Stripe just posted that he needed one of these, What could 37K members build? https://x.com/patrickc/status/2063337800209179029
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