Every piece of AI-assisted work turns on one call, made before the tool does anything. Delegate: the AI does the work and your review is real. Keep: the decision or the material stays with you, and no streak of good output changes that. Verify first: nothing moves until the claim is checked against something real.
Ten situations from work that ships: repos, lockfiles, shared branches, production. Pick the call you'd make and find your pattern.
A pattern like this doesn't get managed by intention. It gets managed by standing instructions your assistant reads before every session, and the builder assembles yours in three minutes.
Build my working agreementThe Engineer's AI Working Agreement, the second playbook in the Operator Series: the five questions for your admin, the day-one do's and don'ts, and the full working practice behind every rule you just drilled.
Get the playbookThe first playbook and the essays live at oriintelligence.ai and read.oriintelligence.ai.