AI Tools For Day to Day

Event Quick Description
This is going to be a hands-on 2-hour workshop to introduce the core information you need to work with AI effectively.

We'll quickly cover the basics (context window, tokens, managing context for effective AI use), then dive into a simple framework for collaborating with AI and a set of useful practical patterns to get stuff done with AI.

BRING YOUR LAPTOP! This is a Practical Workshop, not a boring lecture, bring your laptop and come ready to work!!!! 💻💻💻

Who Should Attend?
This workshop is ideal for:
- Knowledge Workers
- Managers & Team Leads
- Freelancers & Consultants
- Curious Generalists

What You Will Learn (Practical Skills & Takeaways)
- Understand context window, tokens, knowledge cut offs, conditions for hallucination and how to avoid them, and other core concepts that directly relate to the actual practice of AI tools.
- Use the DIE Framework: Learn a structured
approach to AI work — Delegation (when and what to
hand off), Instruction (the 6 elements of
effective prompts), and Evaluation (how to assess
AI output quality).
- Navigate the AI Tool Landscape: Get a quick practical
overview of the main AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM,
Notion AI, Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cowork,
Codex, and OpenClaw (very quick overview!)
- Learn reusable workflow patterns: Implement the
breadcrumbs technique, AI-first task planning,
prompt databases (in Notion, Sheets, or similar), using the AI swipe file system for capturing and
reusing what works.
- Hands-on practice on your own projects (1 hour dedicated to working with folks on their stuff!)

Workshop Outline (2 Hours)
Disclaimer: this outline is SUBJECT TO CHANGE at
any time!

Block 1: The Mental Model (20 min)
- How LLMs predict text — a visual walkthrough of
what happens under the hood
- Context windows, tokens, and the visual
whiteboard exercise
- The context management problem: context rot,
hallucinations, knowledge cutoffs, instruction
positioning, and needle-in-a-haystack
- QA (5 minutes)
Block 2: The Framework (20 min)
- The core insight: AI effectiveness = context
management skill
- Live examples demonstrating the difference
between poor and well-managed context
- The DIE Framework: Delegation, Instruction (6
elements of a good prompt), and Evaluation
- Hands-On: Apply the DIE framework to a real task
— from delegation decision to evaluating the
output
- QA (5 minutes)
Block 3: Tools & Patterns (20 min)
- Rapid tour of the AI tool landscape: what each
tool is best at and when to use it
- Practical workflow patterns: breadcrumbs,
AI-first task planning, prompt databases, swipe
file systems
- Hands-On: Set up a basic prompt database or
swipe file structure you can take home
- QA (5 minutes)
Hands-on Workshop (60 minutes)
- Key takeaways recap
- Open Q&A
- !!!Work on actual problems and blockers for your own projects!!!

Outcome
You will leave this workshop with a fundamentally
different understanding of how AI tools work and
why they fail, which tools exist and how to use them clearly.