Future Shock field guide
How to Get Sh*t Done with AI in 2026
31-page PDF / October 2026 edition
A practical guide to working with AI agents, memory, and skills—whatever your experience level. Start with a project you already have, work through it with an agent, and save enough to pick it up next time.
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Talk it through / p. 6
A worked conversation and an Aha! box on finding your own idea by questioning the agent’s first suggestion.
Turn what works into a skill / p. 18
How to recognize a useful method, save it, and distinguish reusable instructions from one-off decisions.
From the first conversation to work you can reuse
- Quick start: get one thing done
- Keep the project in one place
- Sort out what you already have
- Steer the conversation
- Check what it made
- How AI memory actually works
- Turn what works into a skill
- Pick it back up, or untangle it
- Decide what can run without you
- Prompts, templates and symptoms
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