DorrisHow I work
The habits that save the most time with an agent, from one day to the next. The Field Manual is what went wrong; this is the other half, how the work goes when it goes right.
I worked these out by trial and error, so you can skip that part. Each guide is one habit, what it saves, and a prompt to start it tonight. The first one is free.
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Why we built it
We run a tent company and don't write code. We asked an AI to build the software we were renting, one tool at a time.
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Mock it up before you build it
Have Claude make a clickable mockup of a screen, with made-up data, and get it right before your agent writes any real code.
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Connect your agent to everything
Give your agent its own way into your host, your store and your other tools, so it stops waiting for you to paste things in.
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Drive it from your phone
Your agent works on your computer. You can steer it from wherever you are.
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Talk instead of typing
Say what you want out loud, the long way round, and let your agent sort it out.
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Let the expensive model think and a cheaper one type
The most capable model plans and checks, cheaper ones do the typing, and the same subscription goes much further.
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Show it, don't describe it
A screenshot dragged into the chat beats a paragraph of description: for errors, for screens that look wrong, and for copying what already works.
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Click it yourself before you believe it
The agent saying done is not done. Open it and use it the way a customer would, on your phone as well as your laptop.
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Run it on your computer, in the cloud, or both
Where your agent works changes how fast it goes and what it can see. I have done it both ways, and you can mix them.
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Keep your project on GitHub, and on your computer
What a GitHub repository actually is, how to get one onto your computer the easy way, and when you need a copy there at all.
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Make "push it" mean "it's live"
Decide once what your agent may do without asking, let your host put every checked push live on its own, and stop clicking approve.
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Plug your app into everything you already use
Your store, email, spreadsheets, team chat and social accounts, all feeding one app, and the same four questions for connecting any of them.
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