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The Human-First AI Series

Hello, I'm New Here!

How Four Simple Files Make AI Work Like It Already Knows You

Your AI knows more about you than it did a year ago. It still doesn't know what matters now.

If you're tired of re-explaining your role, your projects, your preferences and the thinking behind your decisions, this book gives you a context system you control.

In about 30 to 45 minutes you'll build four short, portable files - Who, What, How and Why - that give any AI tool the standing briefing it needs, without depending on one platform's memory.

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What's inside

  • Stop rebuilding the same briefing. You explain your role, your current work and your preferences once, and then you're done.
  • Build the Core Four - four short files covering who you are, what you're working on, how you work, and the trade-offs behind your decisions.
  • Let AI interview you, so the files capture the things you're too close to your own work to notice.
  • Get more out of Advisor Mode by giving AI your real goals and constraints to reason against, instead of a task with no background.
  • Put context at the right scope - your global settings, a single project or workspace, or just the chat you're in.
  • Keep it current and portable. Maintenance takes minutes, and the files move with you between tools.

What you'll have when you finish

  • Four portable context files you own.
  • A rhythm for keeping them current.
  • A clear rule for what belongs globally, what belongs in a project, and what belongs only in the chat you're in.
  • A system that moves with you when you change tools.

Who this is for

This is for you if you've used AI enough to know what frustrates you.

You've had the good moments. Too often though, the answer comes back generic, or built on an old assumption, or written in the wrong voice, or disconnected from what you're actually trying to achieve.

You find yourself explaining the same role, the same project, the same stakeholder, the same preference, again and again.

You don't need a technical background. You do need enough experience with AI to have felt the problem.

Never really used AI before? Start with An Absolute Beginner's Guide to Using AI first.

Written from real workshops and client work

Alastair McDermott is a former software engineer who now helps professionals and teams put AI into working practice, without the hype.

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