Getting Started with AI Part 3: Automations Aren't Designed, They Grow — Five Things to Start With and Upgrading When You Repeat It a Third Time

Automations Aren't Designed, They Grow: From One Sentence to a Production Line

This is the third post in the getting-started-with-AI series. Part 1 covered how to set it up, and Part 2 covered how to talk to it and set up guardrails. At the end of Part 2, I said: the hard part is never “how to ask,” it’s “how to design the workflow.” This post will wrap up that statement. The answer might be the opposite of what you think: workflows aren’t designed, they grow. ...

July 27, 2026 · 13 min · 2631 words · 陳柏威 Po-Wei Chen
AI Getting Started Series ②: How I talk to AI agents — the hooks / permissions / CLAUDE.md three-layer constraint hierarchy

How I talk to AI agents: three mindsets, four meta-skills, and a rules file that shouldn't keep growing

The previous post, Getting Started from Scratch, was about how to install it and get it running. This post is about using it well. And that is completely different from just getting it to run. I’ve found that what really determines the outcome isn’t which model you use or whether you can code. It’s how you delegate tasks and how you set up guardrails. The stuff in this post isn’t tied to a specific tool; it applies even if you use ChatGPT (I’ll explain the differences in the last section). ...

July 24, 2026 · 19 min · 3994 words · 陳柏威 Po-Wei Chen