AI / PLANNING NOTE
Before an AI pilot
Define one task before choosing a model.
What does the current workflow cost in time or effort? What data may be used? Who reviews the output? What result would justify continuing?
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Better questions.
Before bigger commitments.
Original planning notes for a first project conversation. General prompts, not project-specific advice or evidence of past delivery.
CLOUD / PLANNING NOTE
Before a cloud change
Map dependencies before moving workloads.
Which systems depend on the environment? How will you test the change and recover from failure? Who owns operating costs and day-to-day support?
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Before a pipeline rebuild
Find the bottleneck before adding a tool.
Where do releases wait? Which checks must remain? What is manual or difficult to reproduce? Agree one useful improvement and how to measure it.
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