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Autonomy levels: watch, approve, walk away
Farah walked away for 11 minutes and the agent sent a client recap because send looked like save. Pick a supervision level on purpose: watch while it acts, approve before irreversible steps, and walk away only for work you can undo.
Uploading docs safely
Miguel dropped a 48-page vendor contract into a Free chat to summarize section 9 and later found home addresses in the exhibits.…
When to stop prompting and do the task yourself
Renee spent 47 minutes prompting a 12-line apology email she could have written in 6. Prompting has a clock: stop when the…
Grok Build review, rollback, and safety rails
A night job ran grok -p with clean unused files, deleted a gitignored env at 01:14, and turned build 4482 red. Git…
First week of useful tasks with Gemini
A five-day plan for Gemini that produces real work: one deliverable per day, a simple revise-and-save loop, and three keeper prompts so…
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