Lessons / Scratch

Make it remember you

Out of the box, an AI assistant starts every conversation from zero — it doesn't know your voice, your team, or your preferences. The people who get the most leverage fix that with one small habit:

When it gets something wrong, correct it — and tell it to remember.

Not "rewrite this." Instead: "I prefer shorter replies, no exclamation points, and I always sign off as Josh. Remember that." Do this for two weeks and you'll have an assistant that knows your style, the names of your team, and your pet peeves — without you re-explaining every time.

The highest-leverage thing to teach it: your voice. Rather than correcting your writing style reply by reply, point it at the evidence once — "Read my last 10 sent emails and learn how I write — tone, length, how I open and sign off — then save that as how you draft for me." Now every draft starts in your voice instead of a generic one. (One learner did exactly this, pulling his voice from five sent emails, and never went back to editing tone by hand.)

Try it now

Pick one thing it's been getting wrong — tone, a name, a format — and correct it explicitly:

When you write for me, I prefer [shorter / warmer / no exclamation points / always sign off as ___]. Remember that for next time.

Then, in a fresh conversation later, check whether it stuck.

You've got it when…

A correction you made in one conversation shows up in a later, separate one — proof the assistant is compounding, getting more yours over time instead of resetting.

Quiz — did it land?

Your tutor checks these before marking the lesson complete:

1. What's the one habit that makes the agent get better at your work over time?
2. What preference did you tell it to remember? (You'll verify it stuck in a fresh session.)

That's the from-scratch track. You've crossed the line: you've delegated a real task, run a briefing, given the AI hands, and taught it something. That's further than most people ever get. When you're ready to connect your whole stack and make your workflows repeatable, the Intermediate track is next.