Workflows
The step you have specified perfectly should probably be code
A prompt that has been refined until it never varies is describing a deterministic operation, and…
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Workflows
Chaining steps together so the result is repeatable rather than lucky.
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Workflows
Handing over a working process means handing over the failures too
A colleague can run your steps within an hour and still cannot own the process, because what you actually…
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Workflows
Measure the whole task, or you will keep believing the fast part
Time savings are usually estimated from the step that got faster, while the checking, fixing and rework…
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Workflows
Work out the manual route before the deadline, not during it
A process that depends on a service you do not control needs a plan for the day it is slow, unavailable or…
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Workflows
Changing the method halfway leaves you with two batches rather than one
The realisation that a better approach exists arrives most often in the middle of a run, and the cost of…
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Workflows
Six months on, nobody can tell which parts of the document you decided
Keeping a record of the judgements made during a piece of work is more valuable than keeping the…
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Workflows
Most of the work in a document process happens before the tool sees anything
Getting source material into a state where it can be processed at all is usually the larger half of the…
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Workflows
What passes between two steps has to carry more than the answer
Once a task is split, the design question shifts to what each step hands the next one, and the usual…
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