How to actually use AI
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Tools and templates are great, but how does this look in real life? Here are three practical workflows you can steal today to multiply your output.

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The Student Workflow

Outlining essays, reviewing lecture notes, and active studying.

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Upload slides to NotebookLM Dump all PDF slides from the semester into Google's NotebookLM to create a single brain trust.
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Generate Flashcards Ask: "Generate 20 challenging flashcards based on the key concepts in these slides."
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Chat with Claude for Outlining Paste your essay prompt and ask Claude to debate three potential thesis statements with you.
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The Professional

Drafting delicate emails, summarising meetings, and unblocking tasks.

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The "Tone Check" Prompt Draft a difficult email yourself. Ask ChatGPT: "Make this sound more professional, less defensive."
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Meeting Synthesis Take rough meeting notes and ask AI to "Format these notes into key decisions and next steps with owners."
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First-Draft Generation Need a project brief? Provide a bulleted list to Microsoft Copilot to spin up the skeleton instantly.
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The Developer

Understanding legacy code, debugging tracebacks, and writing tests.

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Switch to Cursor Open the project in Cursor. Highlight a confusing function and use Cmd+K: "Explain what this does."
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Rubber Duck Debugging Paste a stack trace into Claude and say, "I'm getting this error when starting the server. Where should I look?"
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Test Generation Write your business logic first, then ask AI to "Generate comprehensive unit tests guarding against edge cases."
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