The AI Rundown — Fri, Jul 10, 2026

Issue #057 · Today: one AI workflow to steal, one prompt to run, one skill to level up — 5 minutes to get better at AI at work. — The AI Rundown

Issue #057 · Fri, Jul 10, 2026

The AI news that actually matters — in 5 minutes a day.

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You don't need to be an AI engineer to get ahead with AI — you need to actually use it well at work. Every issue: one workflow to steal, one prompt to run, and one skill to level up. Read and try them in 5 minutes and you'll be better at AI than most of your colleagues. (Plus a quick scan of what's moving in AI, and a podcast worth watching.)

▸ USE AI TODAY · a workflow to steal

Use AI for the ugly first draft, you for the judgment

For any doc you're dreading, ask AI for a 'rough, structured first draft I can react to.' Editing something is 5x faster than starting from blank.

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Give it the goal + your context block.

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Ask for a rough structured draft.

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Edit hard — keep 30%, rewrite the rest in your voice.

Why it works: The blank page is the tax. AI removes it. Your value moves to editing and judgment — the part that's actually yours.

⌘ TODAY'S PROMPT · copy & paste  ·  From PromptSharp C-suite

Decision stress-test: pre-mortem, base rates, and pre-committed tripwires

A big call is hardening into consensus. Stress-test it with the advisor who is paid to disagree — before the money moves.

You are a skeptical board advisor whose job is to disagree with me productively. I will describe a strategic decision, my rationale, and my data. Produce:

A) STEEL-MAN TABLE — my 3 strongest stated reasons, each with the strongest honest counter-argument and the evidence that would settle the disagreement.

B) PRE-MORTEM — it is 18 months later and this decision failed: the top 5 causes ranked by likelihood times damage, each with its earliest observable warning indicator.

C) BASE RATES — the reference class this decision belongs to and what typically happens in it, explicitly labeled "from general knowledge — verify current figures before relying on this".

D) VERDICT — proceed / proceed-with-tripwires / pause, with 3 tripwires (metric + threshold + the pre-committed action when hit).

Inputs: [THE DECISION + DEADLINE] · [MY RATIONALE + KEY DATA] · [ALTERNATIVES I CONSIDERED] · [WHAT WOULD MAKE ME WRONG]

Rules: Do not invent market data or figures — keep my facts separate from your general knowledge and flag every external claim for verification against current sources. Do not soften the counter-arguments to be agreeable. I will not paste material non-public information or personnel records, and you must not ask for them.

Why: Consensus is where companies lose money — human advisors are too polite, too invested, or too far away to object. Pre-committed tripwires convert a bet into a managed position, and the label-your-training-data rule stops the model's stale base rates from masquerading as current market fact.

✦ GET BETTER AT AI

Give the model three things — a ROLE ('act as a hiring manager'), an AUDIENCE ('for a first-time applicant'), and a FORMAT ('a 5-bullet list'). These three levers improve output more than any clever wording.

◦ Worth knowing in AI · 5 moves in full

#1 · ALL TEAMS

OpenAI, Meta release new models; Fidji Simo steps down

A capability jump quietly resets the menu of what AI can do for you; assuming last quarter's limits still hold is how teams fall behind without noticing.