What triggered it
Watching model quality cross the line from novelty to useful collaborator.
Goal
Build repeatable workflows that save time without creating a brittle dependency stack.
What I did
Tested models, built prompt templates, compared notes across tasks, and started designing products around what can actually be automated cheaply.
Summary notes
This one sticks because it produces immediate outputs. The dangerous part is mistaking tool exploration for product progress.
Lessons learned
- The useful frontier is task design, not prompt theatrics.
- Keeping outputs in structured notes makes the learning compound.
Mistakes and dead ends
- Spent time comparing models before defining the actual workflow.
- Saved too many prompts without tagging what problem they solved.