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How James works with AI (preferences)

A short guide to how James likes AI assistants to talk to and work with him.

built Apr 2026 A second brain the AI can read

how it works

Terse/direct, autonomy, honesty, no trailing summaries; workflow patterns (tmux parallel, kick-off-and-return).

Document: A reference or runbook.

The code for this one lives in a private repo. This page explains the idea so you can build your own.

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related

  • Loop engineering (Addy Osmani clipping) Note A saved article about making AI agents prompt themselves in loops instead of a human prompting them each turn.
  • AI/ML and technical skills pages Note A self-description of James's AI and engineering skills.
  • James personal wiki (Karpathy-style LLM wiki) Technique A personal knowledge base about James that AI assistants read to understand him and keep up to date on their own.
  • Twice-daily automated life/work digest archive Technique Every morning and evening an AI writes James a summary of where his day went: what got built, what was tracked, what slipped.
  • Wiki SCHEMA.md: a contract any AI can follow Document A one-page rulebook that tells any AI how to add to and maintain the personal wiki.
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