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The 12 AI Commandments
A practical guide to adopting, building, and using AI, from individual practice to company-wide change
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- 584 pages
- Language
- English
AI will not wait for you, or your organization, to feel ready.
Some people are getting measurably better at their work every week, not because they found a magic prompt but because they built a practice they can rely on. Others try a few prompts, get one impressive answer, and go back to working exactly as they did last year.
The same split runs through whole companies. One puts AI into its products and its daily decisions. The next is still booking a workshop and producing a slide asking “AI: Threat or Opportunity?” It will be discussed next quarter.
The tools are available. The way of working is not.
The 12 AI Commandments is about closing that distance. It sets out twelve working rules for building with AI. Each is short enough to hold in your head while you work, and each was built to survive contact with real users, real deadlines, and real consequences. They scale from improving your own week to changing what an entire organization can accomplish.
The twelve commandments
- Build to understand
- Don’t fool yourself
- Build what earns its existence
- Treat knowledge as code
- Feed the model
- Compile workflows
- Build with the people who will use it
- Define the delegation boundary
- Make safety your speed
- Shrink the loop, then let AI turn it
- Share what you learn
- Protect the joy