The setup we hand every workshop attendee.
Eleven pages on the tools, prompts, settings, and checks used in practical AI workshops. The document we kept re-sending after sessions, made a proper edition.
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Contents
Four parts, page numbers from the current edition.
- p.01The stack
A simple starting stack, what each tool is for, and the one setting to change on day one.
- p.04Clipboard prompts
Eleven reusable patterns for clearer inputs and more useful outputs.
- p.08Agent settings
The defaults worth reviewing before an AI acts on your behalf.
- p.10Pre-flight checks
The checklist before an AI output leaves your hands.
Built lean before lean was fashionable
We’ve built useful software against much bigger odds.
Nick Horob and Jaryd Krishnan built Harvest Profit into a leading farm-management software business with a six-person team and $280,000 in outside funding. They competed with companies employing 10 to 20× more people and, in some cases, raising roughly 100× more capital before John Deere acquired Harvest Profit in 2020.
Nerd Out carries forward the same belief: stay close to the problem, use technology well, and build genuinely useful products and businesses without a bloated team or budget.
Read Nick’s founder story ↗- $280K
- raised
- 6-person
- team
- Acquired
- by John Deere · 2020
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