Summary
The AI Productivity course assignment: a documented, dated personal workflow.
Key Ideas
- A workflow is not real until it survives two weeks of use.
- Naming your own anti-patterns is the most valuable exercise.
Assignment
Design a personal AI workflow covering three of your recurring work tasks (e.g., email triage, research summarization, writing first drafts, code review, meeting prep). For each, document: the exact tools used, the prompt patterns, the verification steps, the ethical disclosures. Track your usage for two weeks. At the end, write a one-page reflection: what improved, what regressed, what discipline you had to add to prevent surrendering judgment.
Deliverables
- — Written workflow document with three tasks fully specified.
- — Two weeks of usage logs (informal notes are fine).
- — One-page reflection on the honest costs and benefits.
- — One anti-pattern noted from your own use.
Rubric
- — Specificity — the workflow is detailed enough for a peer to reproduce.
- — Verification — each task has an explicit verification step.
- — Honesty — the reflection names regressions, not only wins.
- — Discipline — an anti-pattern from your own use is named and addressed.