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Today we wrap up the second month of the AI Bootcamp, so the question is simple: what actually worked for you?
Over the last 11 chapters we covered templates, quality checks and the most common failures. Chapter 24 turns them into one prompt playbook: a short page for each job you repeat, built from your own past work.
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📓 Your prompt playbook
Inside this guide you will learn:
Section | What you can do by the end |
|---|---|
24.1 The unit of a playbook is a job, not a prompt | Pick the 3 or 4 recurring jobs that genuinely earn a written approach |
24.2 One page per job, and 5 lines on it | Write a play in five lines, including the one almost everybody leaves off |
24.3 A recipe covers one task, a play covers a class of work | Write something that still holds when the next case arrives in a different shape |
24.4 A playbook that never changes is a fossil | Know the 4 moments to revise a play, and when to simply delete it |
You'll need: your templates from Chapter 17, your quality bar from Chapter 22, and the failure list from Chapter 23. Open your calendar and sent mail too: they show the jobs you actually repeat.
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📝 Steal these prompts
What most people type:
"Give me a prompt for reviewing supplier contracts."
You get a generic prompt for a generic contract, written around someone else's process.
What to type instead:
"I do this job about [how often]: [describe the job]. It starts when [trigger]. Here are my notes from the last two times I did it: [paste]. Draft a one-page play with 5 lines: the trigger, what I need in front of me before I start, the moves in order (2 or 3), a yes-or-no check that tells me it's finished, and the one failure I've already hit. Ask me about anything you'd otherwise have to guess."
Two past runs: the second run is where what repeats separates from what was a one-off
A yes-or-no check: so you stop when it's done, not when you're tired
Ask, don't guess: you're writing down your process, not borrowing someone else's
Put today's date on each play and review your playbook at the end of every month. If a play no longer matches how you work, rewrite it or delete it.
