Giving an AI a Job: The Workbook

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Welcome to the Leanpub Launch video for Giving an AI a Job: The Workbook https://leanpub.com/giving-an-ai-a-job-66BA667E431F4DF893C357586A5A84EC by Marius Andronie! 0:00 Marius introduces himself: founder of Devaland, Python and AI engineer, 20+ years typesetting scientific books 0:45 Overview of the course: how to choose the first job to give an AI system and write it on one screen 1:32 Key distinction: giving an AI a complete job vs. just asking it questions or doing small tasks 2:17 Why AI chat tools don't reduce workload: repetitive tasks, siloed use, and no system access 3:07 Course content is drawn from real systems Marius built and runs for paying clients 4:40 Relationship between the LeanPub workbook (preview) and the full course at devaland.com/ai-workshop 5:26 The private team course: practical steps for non-IT workers to give AI a job and improve office workflow 7:07 Course structure: four levels from diagnosing wasted time to scoring and automating AI jobs 8:42 Safety-first approach: why you cannot leave AI alone and must keep humans in the review queue 9:27 Practical advice on iterating carefully and thinking through AI systems before they go live About the Course Most people already use ChatGPT or Copilot every day, and their workload has not gone down. The reason is not the model. A chat window leaves you carrying data in and answers out; the hours only come back when a system is given a whole job, with access to where the job lives. This workbook is the method, in four lessons: 1. Why your AI is not saving you time: answer, assist and act, and where the minutes actually go. 2. Giving an AI a job: the seven-heading job description, the four kinds of access, scoring your own jobs on four properties, and choosing your first candidate. 3. Making it safe enough to leave alone: timid by default, the never list, the review queue, "could not check", heartbeats and two tests. 4. What it costs and what breaks: honest running costs at small volume, what breaks in month three, and a one-page brief template. Two exercises, each with a self-check list. Every example comes from systems the author builds and runs for paying clients and for his own company. It is not a certification and not a beginner class in what AI is. The full asynchronous course, with recorded video modules, written reviews of your exercises and one small automation built on your own file, is at https://devaland.com/ai-workshop About the Author Marius Andronie is a former Romanian Army officer, a reserve captain engineer and graduate of the Military Technical Academy in Bucharest, who then spent more than twenty years typesetting books for academic publishers. Today he runs Devaland, a small software company in Romania that builds AI systems businesses can leave running. He writes practical, plain-language guides for real life: preparedness and self-reliance, managing money on one income, calmer days for seniors, healing after the loss of a pet, and putting AI to work safely. Each book is short, step by step, and made to be used. Devaland: https://devaland.com · Deal OS: https://getdealos.tech Follow the author here! https://x.com/Devalandai Thank you for watching, please like and leave a comment, we'd love to hear from you! Please Subscribe and Follow! YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/leanpub X: https://x.com/leanpub Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/leanpub Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leanpub Create Your Own Leanpub Book! You can create your own book anytime here: https://leanpub.com/create/book Here's the tutorial showing how to write and publish a Leanpub book in your browser (it's free!): https://help.leanpub.com/en/articles/2932527-getting-started-writing-a-book-in-leanpub-s-web-browser-writing-mode If you're a Leanpub author and you'd like to submit your own Launch video for us to publish, or if you'd like to record a Launch video with Len, please go here: https://leanpub.com/launch. #books #leanpublishing #selfpublishing #leanpub #writing #ai #managementartificialintelligence #startups #AIautomation #AIworkflow #pythonAI #AIagents #workflowautomation