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DAY 21

When AI squeezes 20 pages into three lines, what does it throw out? — Summarizing

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Put it in order

Try it — Put the steps of a summary in order

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1What's the first thing AI does when it summarizes?

    1. ① Scans the whole text once
    2. ② Cuts sentences from the start
    3. ③ Reads only the title
    4. ④ Finds similar texts on the internet

  2. Q2When you ask for a summary, what changes the result the most?

    1. ① Writing the request nicely
    2. ② Saying how many lines and who it's for
    3. ③ Asking over and over
    4. ④ Using only short sentences

  3. Q3What must you do after you get a summary?

    1. ① Turn it in right away
    2. ② Measure its length
    3. ③ Check it against original
    4. ④ Change the font

The takeaway in my own words

“Summarizing isn't the skill of shrinking — it's the skill of choosing what to throw out.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 22

Why is 'You're taking my hair' a mistranslation? — Translation

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Before & after

Try it — Word-swap translation vs. meaning translation

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1Why is it wrong to swap 'Me estás tomando el pelo' word by word?

    1. ① The number of words is different
    2. ② The grammar is too hard
    3. ③ An idiom carries one meaning as a whole
    4. ④ Because 'pelo' is a Spanish word

  2. Q2What does AI do when it translates '¿Ya comiste?' into English?

    1. ① Copies the words over as they are
    2. ② Writes out how it sounds
    3. ③ Cuts the sentence shorter
    4. ④ Works out the missing subject 'you' and adds it

  3. Q3Why is it better to translate a long text all at once?

    1. ① Nearby lines become evidence
    2. ② It has more letters
    3. ③ It translates faster
    4. ④ It fixes the spelling

The takeaway in my own words

“Swap the words, and you get a sentence. Carry the meaning, and you get understood.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 23

Writing homework: how much do you hand over, and where do you take over? — Writing helper

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Pick one

Try it — This step: hand it over, or do it myself?

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1Which part of a book report should you never hand over?

    1. ① Fixing spelling
    2. ② Listing title ideas
    3. ③ Making sentences shorter
    4. ④ What I thought about it

  2. Q2AI gave you twenty title ideas. What next?

    1. ① I pick one myself
    2. ② Use the first one
    3. ③ Get twenty more
    4. ④ Glue them all together

  3. Q3What should you do with numbers for a presentation?

    1. ① Use the AI's answer as is
    2. ② Check the original source
    3. ③ Round them roughly
    4. ④ Leave the numbers out

The takeaway in my own words

“You can hand over the fixing, but hand over the choosing too, and nothing's left.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 24

If code comes out when you describe it, why doesn't it end there? — Coding

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Put it in order

Try it — The order it takes to get code running

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1AI wrote you some code. Who decides whether it's right?

    1. ① The result you get when you run it
    2. ② If AI says it confidently, it's right
    3. ③ If the code is long, it's right
    4. ④ No errors means it's definitely right

  2. Q2When an error pops up, how should you ask AI about it?

    1. ① Just write 'it doesn't work'
    2. ② Show it the whole error message
    3. ③ Delete the code and ask again
    4. ④ Pass on a summary of the error

  3. Q3What's the trick for building something big?

    1. ① Ask for it all at once
    2. ② Write long code
    3. ③ Small pieces, one at a time
    4. ④ Ignore the errors

The takeaway in my own words

“Getting the code is just the start; coding begins the moment you run it.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 25

The more detail you give, the more the picture looks like your idea? — Making pictures

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Probability slider

Try it — How does the result change as your description gets more detailed?

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1How does an image AI make a picture?

    1. ① It finds a similar picture on the internet
    2. ② It clears noise from a screen full of dots
    3. ③ It traces lines a person drew
    4. ④ It cuts and pastes photos

  2. Q2Why do you get so many way-off pictures when you only type 'cat'?

    1. ① AI doesn't know what cats are
    2. ② The text is too short
    3. ③ AI decides whatever you didn't specify
    4. ④ There aren't enough cat pictures

  3. Q3What if you put in twelve things?

    1. ① All go in exactly
    2. ② Colors get darker
    3. ③ The picture gets bigger
    4. ④ Some easily get dropped

The takeaway in my own words

“Whatever you don't say, AI decides for you, so start by saying what you want to decide.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 26

How many dots are in one second of video? — Making videos

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Number sense

Try it — How many digits? Guessing one second of video

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1Why is making a video so much heavier than making a picture?

    1. ① It has more colors
    2. ② The screen is bigger
    3. ③ It needs sound added
    4. ④ It needs dozens of pictures that all match

  2. Q2About how many pictures go into one second of video?

    1. ① About 30
    2. ② 1
    3. ③ About 300
    4. ④ About 3,000

  3. Q3What do you call one picture in a video?

    1. ① Pixel
    2. ② Frame
    3. ③ Resolution
    4. ④ Subtitle

The takeaway in my own words

“One second of video is thirty pictures, and those thirty have to connect.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 27

How does your phone write down what you say? — Voice

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Split it up

Try it — How "Can you write it down" becomes text — and then sound again

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1What's the first thing AI does when it turns speech into text?

    1. ① Chops it into very short pieces
    2. ② Understands the whole sentence at once
    3. ③ Looks the words up in a dictionary
    4. ④ Looks at the speaker's face

  2. Q2When two words sound the same, like "write" and "right," how does AI choose?

    1. ① It picks whichever was louder
    2. ② It checks which one fits the words around it
    3. ③ It always picks the shorter word
    4. ④ It asks a person every time

  3. Q3When text is turned into a voice, what comes out at the end?

    1. ① A photo
    2. ② A list of words
    3. ③ Air vibration values
    4. ④ A search term

The takeaway in my own words

“A voice is vibration chopped into tiny pieces, and text is the answer you get by matching each piece with its neighbors.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 28

Search box vs asking AI: what actually changes? — How is it different from search?

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Before & after

Try it — Same question: search box vs AI

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1What's the biggest difference between search and an AI answer?

    1. ① How fast they are
    2. ② Whether you can see where the words came from
    3. ③ How many words they use
    4. ④ Whether they work on a phone

  2. Q2What goes wrong when AI pulls several sources together for you?

    1. ① The text gets too short
    2. ② It can never add links
    3. ③ Sources mix, so you can't trace each line
    4. ④ It only uses old sources

  3. Q3AI put a link next to a sentence. So…

    1. ① It's all correct
    2. ② The link is decoration
    3. ③ It always beats search
    4. ④ Click it and check

The takeaway in my own words

“Search tells you where to go, AI tells you what it is — and checking stays in your hands.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 29

Research for a graded class project: how much can you hand to AI? — Research

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Before & after

Try it — Researching "Why did the stream in our town get so dirty?"

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1What speeds up the most when you research with AI?

    1. ① Checking whether the numbers are right
    2. ② Answering questions when you present
    3. ③ The start: search terms and angles
    4. ④ Copying quotes exactly

  2. Q2You want to use a sentence from AI's summary in your homework. What do you do?

    1. ① Paste it in as is
    2. ② Ask a friend
    3. ③ Make it longer
    4. ④ Find that point again in the original

  3. Q3Where should you check numbers and years?

    1. ① Where first published
    2. ② AI's answer
    3. ③ A friend's slides
    4. ④ Any random blog

The takeaway in my own words

“You can share the finding with AI, but the checking is yours all the way.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 30

Stuck on a problem: get just the answer, or the steps? — Study helper

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Pick one

Try it — In this situation: answer or steps?

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1What decides whether you get the answer or the steps?

    1. ① Whether I'll have to do this alone later
    2. ② How long the problem is
    3. ③ Which AI it is
    4. ④ How much time is left

  2. Q2You've gotten the same type wrong three times. What should you ask for?

    1. ① Just the right answer, fast
    2. ② To walk through it line by line
    3. ③ A different problem
    4. ④ Just grading

  3. Q3What should you do after getting the steps explained?

    1. ① Move to the next problem
    2. ② Copy it and hand it in
    3. ③ Solve it again, no peeking
    4. ④ Send it to a friend

The takeaway in my own words

“Problems you'll meet again: get the steps. Problems you won't: get the answer.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 31

Turning 100 survey sheets into a graph: what comes first? — Tables and data

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Put it in order

Try it — From 100 survey sheets to a graph

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1What's the right order for sorting out data?

    1. ① Graph → table → gather → fix
    2. ② Gather → table → fix → graph
    3. ③ Table → graph → gather → fix
    4. ④ Gather → graph → table → fix

  2. Q2What rule should you follow when making a table?

    1. ① Just leave blanks empty
    2. ② Fit as much as you can in one cell
    3. ③ One entry per row, one value per cell
    4. ④ Give columns different names in each row

  3. Q3Which of these is hard to hand to AI?

    1. ① Lining it up in a table
    2. ② Adding up totals
    3. ③ Drawing the graph
    4. ④ Noticing mixed-up units

The takeaway in my own words

“The graph is just the last box. It's won or lost in making and fixing the table.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 32

Presentation prep: which parts are AI's, and which are yours? — Preparing a presentation

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Split it up

Try it — Splitting up a 5-minute talk on "Recycling in our class"

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1Which piece is good to hand to AI?

    1. ① Practicing the talk
    2. ② Answering questions
    3. ③ Listing outline ideas
    4. ④ Speaking in front of friends

  2. Q2Why is it risky to hand over the whole presentation?

    1. ① The text gets smaller
    2. ② It takes longer
    3. ③ The slides get slow
    4. ④ You can't explain sentences you never read

  3. Q3What must you do after you get a draft?

    1. ① Check numbers and sources
    2. ② Print it right away
    3. ③ Make the font bigger
    4. ④ Pick a background color

The takeaway in my own words

“Hand off the pieces you can fix, and do the pieces with your name on them yourself.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 33

Why are some answers boring and others off-the-wall? — Coming up with ideas

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Probability slider

Try it — What happens to ideas when you turn the knob up?

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1What has to change for AI to come up with off-the-wall ideas?

    1. ① Leave the AI on for longer
    2. ② Speed up the internet
    3. ③ Write a shorter question
    4. ④ It picks from a wider range of next words

  2. Q2What else goes up when you turn the knob up?

    1. ① Answers that make no sense
    2. ② Accuracy
    3. ③ Calculation speed
    4. ④ The length of the answer

  3. Q3What's the trick to using AI in a brainstorm?

    1. ① Trust the first answer
    2. ② Generate lots, then pick
    3. ③ Ask only once
    4. ④ Set the knob to 0

The takeaway in my own words

“Turn the knob up and your ideas get wider, but the picking is still up to you.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 34

You've got a big job: where do you even start? — Making a plan

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Put it in order

Try it — Tap the four boxes in order

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1What should you decide first when you make a plan?

    1. ① The to-do list
    2. ② The goal you have to reach
    3. ③ The deadline
    4. ④ Which friend to work with

  2. Q2Which is a better request when you have AI make a plan?

    1. ① Just handle all of it
    2. ② Just tell me the answer
    3. ③ Give goal and limits, ask it to break it down
    4. ④ Wait without saying anything

  3. Q3What does the "check" box do in a plan?

    1. ① Adds more work
    2. ② Erases the goal
    3. ③ Pushes back the deadline
    4. ④ Catches problems early

The takeaway in my own words

“Planning isn't knowing the right answer — it's breaking a big lump into small pieces.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 35

If it can finish a job on its own, how much can you hand it? — Handing over a whole task

1 · Think first

Before the lesson, write down what you think the answer is.

2 · Experiment · Pick one

Try it — Can you hand this whole job off?

What did you change in the experiment, and what happened?

3 · Quiz

Circle the right answer.

  1. Q1How is an agent different from a regular chatbot?

    1. ① It talks more nicely
    2. ② It works without the internet
    3. ③ It uses tools on its own to take many steps
    4. ④ It can draw pictures too

  2. Q2What decides whether you can hand a job off?

    1. ① How long the job is
    2. ② How many words it has
    3. ③ How fast the AI is
    4. ④ Whether you can undo it if it goes wrong

  3. Q3What about sending money from an account?

    1. ① A person checks it
    2. ② Hand it all over
    3. ③ Have AI do it twice
    4. ④ Fix it later

The takeaway in my own words

“If you can undo it, hand it off; if you can't, look at it yourself.”

Rewrite this line in your own words.

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DAY 21 · When AI squeezes 20 pages into three lines, what does it throw out? — Summarizing

  1. Q1 · Answer ① Scans the whole text once You need to see the whole thing to compare what matters. Read only the beginning and cut, and you miss the conclusion at the end entirely.
  2. Q2 · Answer ② Saying how many lines and who it's for Length and reader are your 'standard for what to drop.' Without one, AI decides on its own, and you don't get the summary you wanted.
  3. Q3 · Answer ③ Check it against original The last step rewrites things in its own words, so words that weren't in the original can slip in. A summary isn't done until you've checked it.

Today in one line · Summarizing isn't the skill of shrinking — it's the skill of choosing what to throw out.

DAY 22 · Why is 'You're taking my hair' a mistranslation? — Translation

  1. Q1 · Answer ③ An idiom carries one meaning as a whole An idiom isn't the sum of its words — the whole chunk carries one meaning. So no matter how exactly you swap the words, the meaning doesn't come through.
  2. Q2 · Answer ④ Works out the missing subject 'you' and adds it Spanish often leaves out the subject. To fill in a word that isn't in the original, you have to see what situation the whole sentence is about — something swapping can't do.
  3. Q3 · Answer ① Nearby lines become evidence A word with several meanings, like 'banco,' can only be chosen by looking at the sentences around it. Toss in just one sentence, and AI will always give the same answer too.

Today in one line · Swap the words, and you get a sentence. Carry the meaning, and you get understood.

DAY 23 · Writing homework: how much do you hand over, and where do you take over? — Writing helper

  1. Q1 · Answer ④ What I thought about it Your thoughts are material only you have. Hand that part over, and it turns into a book description instead of a book report — and readers notice fast.
  2. Q2 · Answer ① I pick one myself Hand over the laying out, do the picking yourself. The moment you pick, that title becomes your judgment.
  3. Q3 · Answer ② Check the original source AI can make up believable-sounding numbers. Find whoever first published the number, like a survey group, check it there, and write down the source.

Today in one line · You can hand over the fixing, but hand over the choosing too, and nothing's left.

DAY 24 · If code comes out when you describe it, why doesn't it end there? — Coding

  1. Q1 · Answer ① The result you get when you run it Code that looks believable and code that runs are two different things. Whether the computer runs it and gives the result you wanted is the only referee.
  2. Q2 · Answer ② Show it the whole error message The error message says which line it stopped on and why. Shorten it, and those clues disappear.
  3. Q3 · Answer ③ Small pieces, one at a time Run and check each piece, and you see the broken spot right away. Ask for it all at once, and the cause hides inside long code.

Today in one line · Getting the code is just the start; coding begins the moment you run it.

DAY 25 · The more detail you give, the more the picture looks like your idea? — Making pictures

  1. Q1 · Answer ② It clears noise from a screen full of dots It starts from random noise and, step by step, clears it away in the direction that gets closer to the description. It's not grabbing a picture from somewhere.
  2. Q2 · Answer ③ AI decides whatever you didn't specify If you don't say the color, place, time or mood, AI fills those blanks with the most common choice. And the cat in your head isn't a common cat.
  3. Q3 · Answer ④ Some easily get dropped Detailed isn't the same as greedy. Put the three or four most important things in first and add the rest next round — the results are better.

Today in one line · Whatever you don't say, AI decides for you, so start by saying what you want to decide.

DAY 26 · How many dots are in one second of video? — Making videos

  1. Q1 · Answer ④ It needs dozens of pictures that all match One second alone needs about thirty pictures, and they have to connect. There's a lot to make, but "matching" them is the harder part.
  2. Q2 · Answer ① About 30 Phone videos have 30 per second, movies about 24. That's why one second balloons to 62.2 million dots.
  3. Q3 · Answer ② Frame One picture is a frame, and one dot inside it is a pixel. 30 frames per second, 2.07 million pixels per frame.

Today in one line · One second of video is thirty pictures, and those thirty have to connect.

DAY 27 · How does your phone write down what you say? — Voice

  1. Q1 · Answer ① Chops it into very short pieces It writes the sound down as numbers 16,000 times a second and sweeps over it in 25-millisecond pieces. Chopping it up is what lets similar sounds be told apart.
  2. Q2 · Answer ② It checks which one fits the words around it One piece is only a pitch pattern. The word gets settled by checking what fits with its neighbors. That's why names it's never heard often come out wrong.
  3. Q3 · Answer ③ Air vibration values It makes a pitch pattern from the text, then stamps out vibration values thousands of times a second and sends them to the speaker. It's writing-it-down run backwards.

Today in one line · A voice is vibration chopped into tiny pieces, and text is the answer you get by matching each piece with its neighbors.

DAY 28 · Search box vs asking AI: what actually changes? — How is it different from search?

  1. Q1 · Answer ② Whether you can see where the words came from Search gives you a list of places to go, so the sources stay in plain view. AI gives you one chunk of sentences — easier, but where the words came from disappears.
  2. Q2 · Answer ③ Sources mix, so you can't trace each line It melts many pages into one chunk, so if just one line is wrong, it's hard to pick out that line. That's why you need to check.
  3. Q3 · Answer ④ Click it and check In a 2023 study, only 51.5% of sentences were fully backed by their links. A link doesn't mean it's right, so you have to click and see.

Today in one line · Search tells you where to go, AI tells you what it is — and checking stays in your hands.

DAY 29 · Research for a graded class project: how much can you hand to AI? — Research

  1. Q1 · Answer ③ The start: search terms and angles When you don't know what to look for, it quickly lays out angles and outline ideas. Mistakes here get filtered out in the next step, so they cost little.
  2. Q2 · Answer ④ Find that point again in the original Words that weren't in the original can slip in while it shortens things. If you can't find a sentence in the original, take it out.
  3. Q3 · Answer ① Where first published Numbers that get passed along can change on the way. Check statistics with whoever published them, and quotes in the book itself.

Today in one line · You can share the finding with AI, but the checking is yours all the way.

DAY 30 · Stuck on a problem: get just the answer, or the steps? — Study helper

  1. Q1 · Answer ① Whether I'll have to do this alone later If AI won't be there with you tomorrow, what you need isn't the answer — it's steps that stick in your head. But if you only need to grade something, the answer is enough.
  2. Q2 · Answer ② To walk through it line by line Getting it wrong three times is a sign that something in the middle is missing. Seeing the answer won't fill that gap.
  3. Q3 · Answer ③ Solve it again, no peeking Reading an explanation isn't the same as being able to solve it. Solve it once more without looking, and then it's yours.

Today in one line · Problems you'll meet again: get the steps. Problems you won't: get the answer.

DAY 31 · Turning 100 survey sheets into a graph: what comes first? — Tables and data

  1. Q1 · Answer ② Gather → table → fix → graph Line it up in a table, then fix it — that's when you can see what's missing. A graph drawn before fixing is pretty, but it's a wrong picture.
  2. Q2 · Answer ③ One entry per row, one value per cell Once a cell holds two values, calculating gets stuck. Write blanks down as something like "No answer" so they can be counted later.
  3. Q3 · Answer ④ Noticing mixed-up units You gathered the data, so you know best which rows are in centimeters and which are in meters. AI is fast at lining things up and calculating.

Today in one line · The graph is just the last box. It's won or lost in making and fixing the table.

DAY 32 · Presentation prep: which parts are AI's, and which are yours? — Preparing a presentation

  1. Q1 · Answer ③ Listing outline ideas Like outline ideas or source summaries, it's a piece you can fix if it's wrong. You save time here and spend it on practice.
  2. Q2 · Answer ④ You can't explain sentences you never read The sentences sound great, but it falls apart after one question. You're the one standing up there, and the questions come to you.
  3. Q3 · Answer ① Check numbers and sources Wrong numbers stay under your name too. Check numbers where they were first published and quotes in the original, and write down your sources.

Today in one line · Hand off the pieces you can fix, and do the pieces with your name on them yourself.

DAY 33 · Why are some answers boring and others off-the-wall? — Coming up with ideas

  1. Q1 · Answer ④ It picks from a wider range of next words AI picks the next word by probability. Grab only the likely ones and it's boring; grab unlikely ones too and it gets off-the-wall. The knob that sets that range is "temperature."
  2. Q2 · Answer ① Answers that make no sense As you saw in the experiment, near 100 both the off-the-wall ideas and the ones you'll toss go up. No knob gives you creativity for free.
  3. Q3 · Answer ② Generate lots, then pick The key is to ask the same question several times, generate widely, and then pick. AI is great at making lots of options; you're better at choosing.

Today in one line · Turn the knob up and your ideas get wider, but the picking is still up to you.

DAY 34 · You've got a big job: where do you even start? — Making a plan

  1. Q1 · Answer ② The goal you have to reach Without a goal, you can't even tell what to split up. The list and the dates come after the goal is set.
  2. Q2 · Answer ③ Give goal and limits, ask it to break it down Without limits, AI makes up any plan that sounds good. Tell it how much time you have, how much work it is, and what you can do, and you get a plan you can actually use.
  3. Q3 · Answer ④ Catches problems early Checking doesn't add work — it buys you time to undo mistakes. Find out on the last day and there's no time left to fix things.

Today in one line · Planning isn't knowing the right answer — it's breaking a big lump into small pieces.

DAY 35 · If it can finish a job on its own, how much can you hand it? — Handing over a whole task

  1. Q1 · Answer ③ It uses tools on its own to take many steps A chatbot is done once you ask and it answers. An agent just takes a goal and keeps searching, acting and retrying on its own. That's why people talk about "handing over the whole task."
  2. Q2 · Answer ④ Whether you can undo it if it goes wrong It's not length or speed — it's whether you can undo it. You can undo file names; you can't undo money you've sent or a report you've handed in.
  3. Q3 · Answer ① A person checks it Having it do the job twice doesn't make it safe. For things you can't undo, put in a step where a person looks right before it happens.

Today in one line · If you can undo it, hand it off; if you can't, look at it yourself.