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  generated: 2026-10-24T04:29:16Z
  ttl: 1d

@intent
  purpose: Free lessons on working with AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) by thinking with it first and then delegating real work
  audience: visitor, business-owner, ai-agent
  capability: learn, practice, bookmark

@state
  site: Stop Asking AI
  promise: "Stop asking AI. Start something."
  principle: Search is a task. Delegation is the method.
  author: Jason Brashear
  price: free
  account_required: false
  method[3]{step,meaning}:
    Bring the mess,"Start before you're ready. A ramble, a screenshot, a problem that keeps bugging you. Context beats a perfect prompt."
    Find the spark,Push back. Ask what you're missing. Keep going past the first answer until something clicks.
    Give it the work,"Say what done looks like, check a small sample, and approve anything that goes out under your name."
  lessons[11]{number,title,summary,status,page}:
    0,You don't need a perfect prompt,Start with an unfinished thought and shape it by talking.,live,/lesson-0/
    1,Stop asking. Start delegating.,"Ask for an answer, or hand over responsibility for a result.",live,/lesson-1/
    2,Give AI the whole picture,Why the real material changes the quality of the work.,coming,~
    3,Think out loud with AI,Brainstorm until the real problem shows up.,coming,~
    4,Argue with your AI,"Demand evidence, and notice when it's confidently wrong.",coming,~
    5,Turn conversations into things,"From an idea to a draft, a prototype, finished work.",coming,~
    6,Build an AI chief of staff,Hand off recurring work and keep the decisions.,coming,~
    7,Teach AI how you work,Turn repeated corrections into rules that stick.,coming,~
    8,Know when to let go,"When it can keep going, when it must ask, when only you decide.",coming,~
    9,When AI gets it wrong,Recovering from bad results and false claims of done.,coming,~
    10,From one assistant to a team,"Several AIs, tools and checks, only after the basics.",coming,~
  field_notes[1]{number,title,page}:
    1,Why didn't the AI finish it overnight?,/field-notes/001-overnight/

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  - id: read_field_note_001
    method: GET
    href: /field-notes/001-overnight/

@context
  > Stop asking AI. Start something.
  > Bring a half-formed idea. Talk it through until something clicks. Then hand AI the real work. Free lessons from years of working this way, mistakes included.

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