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Welcome to Clief Notes. Here's where to start.
1. Go check out 📚Navigating The Course to see how to get around and what's here. 2. Start with The Foundation. 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 join in on our Biweekly competitions and win some real cash. ⭐ Competitions Mega Thread 5. If you are wanting to dive into the masterminds, grab all the past templates, artifacts and resources. Upgrade and head into the The Vault for Premium and The Drawing Room (VIP) for VIP 6. Post your work. Ask questions. Help others when you can. What are you here to build?
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🏆 COMP #8 RESULTS: THE WILDCARD 🏆
📦 AND SOMETHING NEW: EVERY ENTRANT GETS A FEEDBACK FILE 📦 🔍 WHAT WE DID DIFFERENTLY THIS TIME Every submission was cloned at the exact commit that was public when we read it, and read file by file. The brief. The identity. The rules. The reference layer. The code. Where a repo made a claim we could check, we checked it. Arithmetic recomputed by hand. Sample photos opened and compared against the outputs that cited them. Files diffed. Self-tests traced. Thirty-two repos, read at the code/word level. And one lens over everything, because it's the lens this whole community is built on: does the build keep the human's judgment where it pays and put the deterministic work in code, where it can't hallucinate? 📦 THE FEEDBACK PACKAGE This is the new thing, and it's for everyone not just the podium. 📦 COMP #8: THE WILDCARD - The Vault Every entrant gets a markdown file. Three parts: 1️⃣ The read. What your build actually is, and the strongest thing in it cited to your own files. Rule numbers. Function names. Your own examples. 2️⃣ One push. The single change that most improves your build. Not a list. One. 3️⃣ An idea worth naming something original in YOUR build, credited to you, that the rest of the community is told to take from. Plus links to the builds your feedback points at. Nobody walks out of this comp empty-handed. Thirty-two builds, thirty-two named ideas. The roster alone is worth the download. 📍 The package + the full write-up (what held up, what was missed) live in the new Feedback module: 📦 COMP #8: THE WILDCARD - The Vault 📚 WHAT THE FIELD TAUGHT Three lines split thirty-two repos: ✅ Enforcement. A must in a markdown file is a request. A must in code is a constraint. (That line is from one of your repos. It's in the package. Go find whose.) ✅ Evidence. The builds that shipped receipts of a REAL run transcripts, dated logs, before-and-after fixes read differently every single time.
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❗The Lyceum opens this Thursday: live webinar at 7 PM ET❗
Thursday, July 16 at 7:00 PM ET. Quick version for anyone who hasn't been following: The Lyceum is Eduba's 12-week AI certification program and the first credential we've ever issued. Over 3,000 people are on the waitlist and seats per cohort are limited. What we'll cover in the hour: 01 / The structure. 12 weeks, three sprints, nine live sessions, 18 hours of instruction, 12 instructors per cohort. 02 / The cohorts. Technical, Business, and Creator. Same core curriculum, weighted differently. We'll walk through how to pick yours. 03 / The competition. $250,000+ in prizes across the tiers and how your capstone feeds into it. 04 / The certification. What you have to do to earn it and what it actually certifies. 05 / The investment. What it costs, how payment works, and who should not enroll. Then live Q&A until the questions run out. One more thing. At the end of the session we're doing something for the people actually in the room. It's capped at a small number, it goes in the order people claim it, and we're not putting it in writing. Be there and stay to the end. The session is live only. No recording going out. Thursday · July 16 · 7:00 PM ET skool.com/live/XM7969jTG7L Come with the hard questions. Bring the skeptical ones too. That's what the hour is for.
Don't let Trust do the Job your Architecture should be Doing
Let's consider a five-person firm. Maybe a consulting firm (as was the build by @Eytan Levy ). Each consultant has a workspace of markdown files, client context, working notes, output logs, and Claude Code runs on top of it. The whole thing lives in one company repo. Everyone clones it, pulls in the morning, pushes at the end of the day. It works. I'd build it the same way. Now ask what's stopping consultant three from opening client seven's folder. The honest answer is nothing. She just doesn't. There's a contract, there's training, she's a professional, and you know her. That's a real control and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. But it's worth being precise about what's actually holding the system together, because it isn't the architecture. Git permissions stop at the repo boundary. Inside the repo, everything is readable by everyone who cloned it. The thing keeping client seven private is not a permission. It's a person. That costs you nothing while it's true. The problem is that nothing in the system tells you the day it stops being true. And it stops for ordinary reasons. You hire past the point where you personally know everyone. You bring a contractor in for one engagement. Someone leaves for a competitor. You sign a client whose contract says their data can't sit on personal devices. You take on a client who competes with a client you already have, and the gap between two folders suddenly needs to be an actual wall. On the day one of those lands, you reach for the lever and find out what you really have. You remove the person from the repo. That stops their next pull. The clone they made three weeks ago is on their laptop, complete, and it stays there. Repo permissions govern who can get it. They don't govern who has it. That is distribution control, and most people think they bought access control. The part I keep my eye on is calling this a big-company problem. It isn't a headcount thing. A fifty-person firm of salaried employees under proper contracts might be perfectly fine. A three-person shop with one contractor who also works for your competitor is not. The trigger isn't scale. It's the first time there's someone inside the system you wouldn't personally vouch for. That usually shows up with growth. It doesn't have to.
🏁 Playbooks 3.1 Check-In
You watched Jake build and deploy a full website in under 10 prompts. Let's see what stuck before you try it yourself. 💬 Drop Your Answer in the Comments 1. What's one thing you'd include in your first prompt that the video showed gets missed? (Logo format? Image direction? Color palette? Form handling?) 2. Which "Key Moment" timestamp are you rewatching before your first build? 3. If you've already built something: How many prompts did it take you? The video benchmark is under 10. If you hit 15+, what would you front-load next time? ✅ Action Step Post your live GitHub Pages URL in the comments when you finish. Include one sentence about what you'd change on the next iteration. Stuck on a deployment error? Screenshot it and post here before burning tokens. Someone else probably hit the same one. Quick Gut Check Where does the build actually start?
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