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The Builder Track

For people who build workflows and want to know why they work and how they break. Each page opens with a diagram, shows the idea in a picture or a table and ends with somewhere to try it.

Start with page 1
One bigpromptStep 1+ checkStep 2+ checkStep 3+ check
One big prompt
One prompt does every part at once. When the answer is wrong, nothing tells you which part went wrong.

The Pages

  1. 1Why Small Steps WorkA short prompt with one job gets the AI’s full attention, and a check can stand right after it.
  2. 2How Workflows FailEight ways an AI workflow goes wrong, each drawn, with the check that catches it.
  3. 3Designing a Check That Can FailA check earns its place only if it fails on a bad result. Prove it by planting a mistake.
  4. 4Loops and LimitsWhen to let a step try again, how to tell it what failed, and when to stop.
  5. 5Hand-Offs and Structured OutputFix the shape of what each step passes on, so the next step and the check can read it every time.
  6. 6Choosing a Workflow ShapeSix shapes, and the order of questions that tells you which one a job needs.
  7. 7Cost and Speed of a WorkflowWhat a workflow costs in runs, words and waiting, and how to trim it without losing a check.
  8. 8When Not to Use a WorkflowOne prompt, a person, a tool that counts, or no way to check: the cases where a workflow does not earn its place.

New to workflows? Start with the course, 10 short lessons with an exercise each.