Ingest: four steps from chatting to hands-off AI (guide No. 44)

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Source

Austin Marchese · Boris Cherny's 4 Step Playbook to 10x Your AI Productivity (published today, auto-generated captions). The video is Marchese's non-engineer translation of Boris Cherny's "Steps of AI Adoption" (Anthropic, July 2026, published as a Claude artifact page and announced on his X). Cherny's quoted lines were verified against secondary write-ups of the post, since the artifact page itself could not be fetched.

Placement

New guide, No. 44: "Four steps from chatting to hands-off AI" · agents · broad · draft.

Most of the video's individual tactics already have guides, so they were cross-linked rather than re-taught: verification loops (Loop the agent until the work passes), taste standards (Why AI makes slop), permissions (Assume your agent uses every tool it has), skills from finished work (Capture the model's discipline), schedules (Automate a workflow as a Claude routine), report channels (Buzz), proactive agents (Make your agents proactive), model pinning (Stop hitting your token limit), iteration caps (Guardrails for hours-long agent runs), deciding what stays human (What still pays when AI does the work).

What no existing guide covered is the map itself: four steps, each defined by who watches what, each with a named bottleneck, where the bottleneck you feel is the diagnosis of which step you are on. That framework, the two-question copy-paste test, the contractor story against "faster if I do it myself", and the 80 percent rule for automation candidates are the guide's own material. The guide becomes a natural entry point that places a dozen catalogue guides on one progression.

Registry row added to content/sources.md. Sponsor segment (Ask Your Work), giveaway, and buildpartner.ai plugin promos were not ingested.

README plate unchanged: the plate counts published guides, and this one lands as a draft.

Checks

• npm run build passes (em-dash gate, heading length, schema).
• Step 6 writing pass + clarity pass run; rewrites listed in the session.

Awaits editorial review. Merging is publishing.

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