GuideTechnology
13 min read
Fourteen compact, tool-independent recipe cards you can copy into your playbook: study, developer, career, research, productivity and automation. Each card gives the goal, the steps, a prompt template, the checks and the risk level, and links back to the article that explains why it works.
GuideTechnology
10 min read
By now you have habits, prompts and rules scattered across a course. This article turns them into one personal AI operating system: your principles, privacy boundaries, verification rules, tool-selection criteria, a playbook of reusable workflows and a review routine, captured in a one-page manual you can keep and update. No paid tools required.
GuideTechnology
12 min read
Agents and AI workflows fail in predictable ways: wrong tools, compounding errors, endless loops, confident 'done' messages that are not true and hostile content. This article lists the failure modes, then shows how to design for reliability with validation, escalation, approval gates, evaluation sets and staged rollout, including a runnable approval-gate example.
GuideTechnology
11 min read
How can a language model that only produces text check a calendar, search a database or edit a file? Through tool calling: the model asks, your program acts. This article explains function calling, the Model Context Protocol and the agent loop, with a runnable toy loop that shows allowed tools, step limits and what the model never does itself.
GuideTechnology
10 min read
Chatbot, workflow, automation, AI-assisted workflow and agent are often used as if they mean the same thing. They differ in who decides the next step, and that difference drives reliability, cost and risk. This article defines each, compares them on one task and gives a decision method built on one rule: use the simplest system that reliably works.
GuideTechnology
10 min read
AI is a tireless thinking partner for generating options, breaking work into steps and stress-testing plans. It is a poor decision-maker, because it does not share your values or consequences and tends to agree with you. This article shows how to use it to think better while keeping the decision yours.
GuideTechnology
10 min read
AI summaries save hours, and they fail in quiet ways: a missed 'not', an invented owner, a decision that was never made. This article shows how to extract decisions and actions from meetings, summarise long documents for a purpose, and build a note system that you can search and trust.
GuideTechnology
11 min read
The first AI answer is a draft. This article teaches how to give feedback that actually improves it, how to ask the AI to critique and offer alternatives without being fooled by agreement, how to split big tasks into checkable steps, and when the real problem is not the prompt at all.
GuideTechnology
10 min read
Instead of asking which AI product is best, ask which kind of AI fits the task. This article sorts today's tools into capability categories, explains what each is good and bad at, and gives you a method for testing tools on your own work.
