Before you write the prompt, write twenty examples of the correct answer. Before you build the agent, write down twenty examples of the output you would accept. Not a description of it. The actual answers.

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If you can't produce twenty, you don't have a use case — you have a hope. If you can, you've just written your spec, your test set, and the evidence for whether to keep going. Most AI projects don't stall because the model can't do it. They stall because nobody can tell whether it did. For the AI project you're running right now, could you write down twenty correct outputs today? #AIStrategy #Founders #Operations