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My AI Workflow Was Pure Chaos. Here’s What I Learned.

Emam Elimam

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My AI Workflow Was Pure Chaos. Here’s What I Learned.

Let me tell you a story.

This is how I used to build.

This is a true story hahaha.

  1. I would take a shower.
  2. Get an idea.
  3. Get inspired.
  4. Come out.
  5. Open my laptop.
  6. Create a new folder.
  7. Connect Cursor or Claude or whatever tool I was using.
  8. Then write one huge prompt describing my idea.

And boom.

Things would start happening.

Where I host most of my apps :)

No complex stuff.

No workflows.

At the beginning, this felt amazing.

I felt alive.

Full of rush and adrenaline.

And honestly…

It still feels magical to me today.

But magic doesn’t mean cost-effective hahaha.

Magic doesn’t mean efficient.

And magic doesn’t always mean affordable, right?

Anthropic and OpenAI Teams with my money hahaha.

The ironic part is…

If you spend time on YouTube, X, developer communities, or even random posts…

You’ll realize there are way better ways to approach building projects. To improve your coding workflow.

For me, because I was just starting…

I was brute-forcing everything.

Every single time.

Because I thought:

This is cool.

I didn’t even care to check what was happening out there.

I just wanted to create as many things as possible. That magical feeling of building was always enough.

However…

This year?

I got much better.

And honestly…

It’s all thanks to these dope resources that I’ll share below. They taught me how to build projects in a way cooler and smarter way.

  • Claude Code Best Practices
    Best for learning how to plan, let AI explore your code, make changes, and work with it like a coding partner.
  • Cursor Rules Docs
    Best for learning how to create simple project rules so AI understands your coding style, folder structure, and preferences.
  • Replit Agent Docs
    Best for beginners who want to turn an idea into an app using plain language. Very simple and friendly.
  • GitHub Copilot Prompt Engineering Guide
    Best for learning how to ask better coding questions and give clearer instructions to AI.

Try them out and see 😀

Go out there and find what works for you.

It’s okay to do random things in the beginning.

See what flavors work for you!!!

Which agents.

Which tools.

Which workflow.

At the end of the day, everyone is different.

We’re all human.

And we all build differently.

So, I can’t wait to see your projects! Tag me here!

And if this is your first time reading Builder Notes, you can check the first article where I shared the full story of how I got here.