Your instructions file is long now. You keep adding to it. And the AI keeps ignoring the lines that matter most to you.
That is what happens when everything lives in one place. The rule you need once a month sits next to the rule you need every hour, the file gets carried into every session, and the important lines get buried. You add more, it gets worse, and you start to think the tool just does not listen.
Thirty five minutes and you will know the seven homes an instruction can live in, be able to pick the right one in about ten seconds, and have a folder set up with the three files that make AI stop asking who you are.
This is for anyone who has written instructions and watched them get ignored. Some of it touches folders and files, so it is a step up, but there is still no code.
The proof behind this
Liz Elliott runs her whole operation on AI automations across several computers, and she rebuilt a 403 guide archive into the 103 lesson course this series comes from. That only works because instructions live in the right place instead of one giant file.
What this lesson is
Lesson 4.3 of the free AI for Entrepreneurs course, in Module 4: Talking To AI.
Think about how a workplace holds its rules. Some are on a poster by the front door and everyone sees them daily. Some are taped to one machine and only matter when you are standing at it. Some live in a binder that nobody memorizes, and you pull it out for that one job. Some things are not rules at all, they just happen, like lights going off on a timer. And some things you say out loud once on a Tuesday, for that afternoon only. AI has the same shape. There are about seven homes for an instruction, each loading at a different time with a different amount of force. Picking the right home is the whole skill, and it comes down to two questions: when should this show up, and how much force should it have.
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Behind the paywall
All seven homes, what each one is for, and when it loads
The ten second decision, and a comparison table you can keep
The three project files, including a full about-me.md you can copy
The always on instructions block
How to build the folder AI can read, work in, and save finished work to
How to keep the files alive instead of writing them once
The ten mistakes, and the checklist
What paid subscribers get overall
Paid subscribers get every part of AI for Entrepreneurs in full. Every numbered step, every prompt in a block you can copy, the mistakes list, and the checklist at the end. You also get the rest of the run as it goes out, and the whole paid archive on Liz on the Web.
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