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Operationalizing AI: Building Systems, Prompt Instructions, and Handoff Docs
Welcome back to The Missing Manual with your hosts, Julia Levy and Jenny Cotie Kangas (JCK). In this episode, we are right in the middle of a multi-part series detailing the real, unvarnished work it takes to build a content engine and operationalize AI for daily work.
Too often, people get frustrated with AI because they expect it to read their minds. Today, we demonstrate a core truth: you cannot automate what you cannot see. We share our personal back-and-forth building a comprehensive Markdown instructions file for our Claude Projects. We discuss the transition from tactical execution…
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