🧭 THIS WEEK AT BuildProven
Howdy, annoyed at writing this at 10pm night before publication! :(. Been a bit busy, a bit lazy, StarkNet (OpenClaw) has completely sucked for some weeks now. Enough that I started to build a much simpler version this morning. Got home to it finished, [not sure if it works yet!] and Claude Code decided to name it ‘clawless’. Ha.
So, let’s get into AI hero at work. What is it and how do you become one [if you want].
as usual, would love it if you could share this newsletter, give feedback via the poll at the end, or best, just hit 'reply' and tell me what you need/want with AI. I will definitely reply and try to help best i can.🧰 Worth Your Click
Here are a few things I found recently:
open design - open source ‘clone’ of Claude Design - looks pretty great - it’s becoming crazy really how much SW is out there and how relatively simple it is to simple clone SW if you want something cheaper/better etc. If you are thinking of building SW to sell, definitely makes me wonder how to create a USP that can’t simply be cloned.
Chris Parsons - using AI to code - pretty smart SW guy and a good rundown of how to set things up.
another smart SW guy - Martin Fowler - with a good write up on AI coding including some definitions and links out to other articles in the space.
building effective AI agents - from Anthropic
🗺️ FEATURED INSIGHT
You as the AI Hero
Last few weeks I’ve realised a few things on AI in the workplace.
i imagine most medium to enterprise businesses are still trying to figure it out
there’s a huge mess of legal, security and compliance topics that really aren’t discussed online at all, at least the reading I do - could be an interesting niche/business area I might need to think. I’m no expert yet there though and a bit boring it seems…. This stuff slows AI rollout to a crawl.
There’s a lot of thought/input on what tech to use and tools to rollout internally. Seems less though on what actually would be really valuable from a business perspective.
and unfortunately, the tools available at work might be quite different or less featured than what you see available when at home. This is due to security, compliance, regulation reasons.
Finally, there are huge portions of a typical workforce that have are either unsupportive/combative towards AI or simply almost never used.
This all gives a lot of opportunity to become the ‘AI Hero’ or at least one of them :). Here’s some ideas:
Read some newsletters/good blog posts on AI at home/work to keep yourself up to date what is happening in the space.
Take some training, if you reply and ask I can send you some ideas on what to take
From [1], you’ll build basic understandings of tools available, what AI can and can not do and how it’s being used
Take that now into the workplace -
how are the tools different? What have you learned that can translate to the tools there?
what limitations do the tools have and can you work around them or must you push the appropriate department to add features x, y, z to address limitations
Mostly, just use the tools - often - you will soon in just some weeks and months be ahead of > 80% of your company at a typical enterprise IMO
Next - Use Cases! Not much point to AI at work unless it’s something valuable/useful.
What tasks will really help you/your team each day/week.?
figure out how from your steps and learnings above, how AI can do or help those use cases
Here’s some examples -
you get a RFQ from the typical customer who does nothing for months, then says btw, you have 3 days to respond. It’s likely you have some equivalent of chatGPT or Claude at work - use that to:
summarise the documents,
or figure out what changed since last RFQ round
figure out what are must have requirements
even write and structure a response package, letter, cost etc.
analyse contract documents - not a replacement for lawyers but can be a good first pass to the find the ‘hot points’ of risk within a contract and guiding your legal team what to focus on
automate the lovely status and reporting
each team member or team lead updates key status/risks weekly/monthly
AI can read all those, summarise and produce an automated report
eliminate meetings - think of your least favourite meetings and how to have AI get rid of it!
In short - learn AI basics, use the tools at work and start applying to some tasks/use cases. You’ll rapidly become a AI Hero.
Weekly build logs from a 25-year program manager who codes with AI.
— Brett
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