Fast questions and one-off drafts. You bring the context into the conversation.
The AI Breakdown
AI 101
Use AI to learn, create, build, and work better.
Curate the context. Pick the environment. Verify the result.
Presented by Adam Gurski • adamgurski-creative.com • Verified 2026-08-27 • Model references checked against official sources
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Tools, prompts, and links from tonight’s session.
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Pick the right room
Start with the environment that fits the job. The detailed hosted and open/local directory lives in the toolkit.
Claude
Anthropic · Claude Fable 5
Anthropic’s most capable generally available model — built for long projects, careful writing, and Claude Code.
The first unlock
AI gets better when it has your material.
Before you ask, hand it your stuff — the notes, the files, the examples, the constraints. That’s the difference between a guess and useful work.
NotebookLM
Your sources
Cited answers
Customer notesGoals, constraints, questions, rough details.
Source filesPDFs, docs, links, policies, research.
ExamplesBrand voice, past work, preferred formats.
▸Open my live notebooknotebooklm.google.com — a real grounded workspace
Grounded workspace
"Based on your sources, here are the three strongest options, what evidence supports them, and what still needs checking."
Source 1
Source 2
Open question
Three levels of context and control
Move from a conversation, to a bounded project, to an agentic workspace as the job becomes more durable and complex.
Three levels of context and control
Give AI the right-sized room.
Memory is not magic. Better work comes from context you can see, shape, and remove.
Persistent files, instructions, and examples for a body of work.
Inspectable, user-controlled context plus tools, files, checks, and an approval loop.
Recorded walkthroughFrom a chat to a working canvasClick the clip to watch the full build.
Your source material
Your project rules
Your preferred examples
Inspectable workspace1Reads only the context you provide.
2Works with tools inside clear boundaries.
3Shows what changed for your approval.
Turn a vague ask into a working brief
If you remember one formula tonight, make it this one: Role · Task · Context · Format. Click any block — watch it light up in a real prompt.
“Make me a snake game”AI guesses the look, the controls, the rules — you get a coin flip.
The RTCF briefSame ask, fully specified — you control what comes back.
Role
Who should the AI act as?
Task
What exact job should it do?
Context
What facts and limits should guide it?
Format
What should the answer look like?
Client Reply
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SCORE 0042
What the brief buys you — built live, in the demoprompt 1 of 6 → canvas
THE AI
BREAKDOWN
BREAKDOWN
“It made the next step obvious enough to take.”
Run the loop on one real task
1Pick one annoying task
2Gather the context
3Choose the environment
4Prompt with RTCF
5Check with the 4Ds
Your dare: replace one 10-minute chore with AI tonight.
Grab a real note, a messy photo, a draft email, or a question you’ve been sitting on. Start with your own stuff — then let me know how it goes.
Start with sources
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