Full class transcript. Token management, the three blueprint questions, live scroll wall building, MCPs explained, and deploying to Cloudflare -- everything discussed, demonstrated, and debated.
The 12 most important things from Widgets Week, distilled into a single page. Plus the homework checklist for Week 4. Your wall is getting very crowded.
Your quick reference for spending smart. Fuel grades (Haiku/Sonnet/Opus), the three-options rule, the One Prompt method, and practical token savers. Stick it next to your screen.
Answer these before you touch Claude. What problem does this solve? Who is it for? What does done look like? Plus the Dream-Question-Spec-Build pattern.
Connect your first colored tube. What MCPs are, step-by-step Airtable setup, the full tube lineup, and the one-at-a-time rule. The red tube is spicy.
Your pre-flight checklist and step-by-step deploy guide. Plus the Assumption Trap -- what to verify after Claude says "it's done." Cost of excuses: expired.
You don't need 3,000 prompts. You need ONE good starter prompt. This turns your AI into a prompt engineer -- brain dump your idea, it asks questions, you refine together until it's perfect.
Paste this into a new chat and your AI walks you through designing your project -- asking the three blueprint questions, pushing you to get specific, and giving you a must-do checklist at the end.
Paste this in and your AI figures out which MCP you need based on your tools, then walks you through connecting it step by step. Screenshots welcome when you get stuck.
Paste this in and your AI walks you through pre-flight checks, Cloudflare deployment step by step, and post-deploy testing. It won't let you skip the verification.
Tell RJ what's working, what's confusing, or what you want more of. Every piece of feedback makes this class better.
Send FeedbackAsk anything about what we covered in class. The Brass Tube Hotline connects you to a bot that knows everything from the course so far. It talks like RJ. Sandwich not included.
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