I’m ready to go deeper: a practical AI learning path

Delegate a bounded project and evaluate whether the full workflow helps.

Agents, systems, testing, and work that lasts.

Delegate a bounded project and evaluate whether the full workflow helps.

Take these at your own pace. Mark completion after practicing, not as a qualification.

1. Chat, workflow, or agent: choose how much work to delegate

Understand the difference between a conversation, a repeatable sequence, and an agent that can choose actions.

Practice: Use the workflow planner to describe one recurring task. Decide whether you need a conversation, a fixed sequence, or an agent.

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2. Give an AI agent a clear brief and sensible permissions

Translate a broad goal into permitted actions, review points, and evidence of completion.

Practice: Write an agent brief with five lines: goal, inputs, permitted actions, review point, and completion evidence.

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3. What to give AI: build a useful context pack

Make a reusable project brief with facts, examples, constraints, and a clear record of what changed.

Practice: Create a one-page context pack for something you do regularly. Remove one outdated fact and identify one missing fact.

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4. Test an AI workflow before you depend on it

Build a small test set, define useful success criteria, and measure the corrections as well as the output.

Practice: Create five cases for a recurring task and write three pass/fail criteria. Try the workflow and record one actual failure.

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5. Keep a long AI project on track with a useful handoff

Create a compact record of decisions, artifacts, unresolved questions, and the next action so a project can resume cleanly.

Practice: Write a handoff for an unfinished personal project. Come back later and use it to identify the next action without rereading the chat.

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Your small project

Run one bounded workflow on five cases, inspect the results, and leave a handoff another person could use.

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