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You do not need to read everything. Start with the work you need to do.
If you are choosing a first project, the four notes below give you a short route through the main decisions. They use hypothetical examples so you can inspect the reasoning and try the checks yourself.
If you already have a system, jump to the design, testing, or handoff problem you are facing. Notes holds the full archive; Topics groups it by subject.
Starting a project? Read these four in order.
Follow one piece of work, test the investment, choose the right tools, and check an answer.
Find your first workflow by following recent cases
Leave with one question worth investigating, based on recent cases and the people doing the work.
5 min readIs this workflow worth automating?
Work through a small forecast and find which assumption could wipe out its expected margin.
6 min readWhich parts of this workflow need a model?
Separate fixed rules, predictions, language tasks, and decisions a person still needs to make.
6 min readThe wrong amount passed validation
Try a deliberately wrong amount and see why a valid format is not enough to accept an answer.
6 min read
Already building? Pick the problem in front of you.
These are separate entry points. You do not need to read the whole archive first.
Draw the system before choosing an agent
The design is unclear: sketch the sources, decisions, approvals, and failure paths around one request.
9 min readWhich cases belong in your evaluation set?
The tests look good: check which important case, expected answer, or rejection test is still missing.
7 min readThe pilot works. Can anyone else run it?
The pilot works: find out whether someone other than its builder can change it and handle a failure.
7 min read
Keep this reference for project reviews
The 12 Factors of AI Value Engineering
Use the four questions for a quick project review. Return to the twelve factors when you need to investigate a gap.
Read the four questionsYou can read the practical notes first. The reference is there when you need to check the wider decision.