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5.1.3 - How It Ends Is the Part People Remember - Plan the ending: say who is still using it, what they get and what is left behind at the address afterwards.
Matt Cameron
AI builds the easy part now. The hard part is deciding what to make. I help small businesses use AI for digital marketing and startups use AI for apps. vibe2value founder.
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5.1.1 - Would You Start This Today? - Run the continue test: say whether it still earns its place, what it costs you in a normal week and which of the three answers comes next.
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4.3.2 - How Would You Know If Any of This Worked? - Decide what evidence would tell you the knowledge base is doing its job, then take the reading before you start so you have something to compare against.
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5.1.2 - Where Do You Stop, For Now? - Decide what this project asks of you in a normal week, and write down what would make you open it again.
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4.2.2 - Decide What Reaches You Before Everything Does - Decide which work runs unattended, what hands itself back to a person and what that person actually receives when it does.
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4.2.1 - The Failure Whose Only Symptom Is That the Answer Looks Wrong - Decide where each kind of failure appears and what a person is handed when it does, including the ones that never go red.
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4.1.2 - If the Secret Only Exists on Your Machine, You Are the Single Point of Failure - Decide where secrets live and how they are set per environment, with every name the code reads written down and no real value anywhere near it.
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4.1.1 - You Haven't Finished a Deploy Until You've Practised Undoing It - Decide what triggers a deploy to each environment, how you confirm it landed and the exact route back to the previous version.
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Where is the low hanging fruit with AI? - Start with the boring work. Not the clever work. The work that is done the same way every time, because that is where you can tell whether it was done right.
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An AI agent charges you per answer and never says whether the answer was any good - Telemetry records the cost, the template, the model and the latency. It does not record whether the answer was any good, and that half has to be built by hand.
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The cheapest way to build an AI agent is the most expensive way to run one - The option that feels like progress in week one is the one still charging you in week fifty. An agent has to keep its policy somewhere. There are three obvious places to put it.
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Interesting to me. Not to you. - What stops you pressing the button? Gut feel, a friend, a chat AI, market research.