برومبت ولا لوب ولا خريطة: اختار مستوى الشغل الصح مع الذكاء الاصطناعي وارسم خريطة شغلك الأسبوعيPrompt, Loop or Map: Pick the Right Level of AI Work and Map Your Weekly Process

Key terms

Prompt

Instructions you give once, and the AI answers once.

Loop

The AI does the work, checks it against a clear test, and fixes what failed until it passes or runs out of tries.

Workflow map

The whole process laid out step by step: what goes in, what comes out, when to retry, when to stop, and when to ask you.

The steps

1. 1

   Step 1

   Understand the three levels

   Level one is a prompt: "write a reply to this email" and you are done.

   Level two is a loop: "write the reply, check it is under 120 words and answers all three questions, and fix it if not".

   Level three is a map: the whole weekly email process laid out, from sorting to replying to follow up, with rules for retry, stop and ask.

2. 2

   Step 2

   Pick the level with one question

   One off task? Prompt.

   A task you can call pass or fail? Loop.

   A task that repeats every week? Map it.

   If a prompt is enough, stay there. A higher level is not always better.

3. 3

   Step 3

   Turn a prompt into a loop

   Any prompt becomes a loop when you add three things: a clear pass test, an instruction to check, and a number of tries.

   PromptLoop template

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   Task: [task]
   Pass test: [for example: under 120 words, answers every question, no numbers you made up]
   Do the task, then check it against the pass test point by point. If a point fails, fix it and check again. At most three tries. At the end give me the result and a check table: each point, pass or fail.

4. 4

   Step 4

   Draw the map of your weekly process

   For work that repeats, let the AI interview you and draw the map with you. Paste this into Claude or ChatGPT and answer the questions.

   PromptMap drawing prompt

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   Help me draw a workflow map for a task that repeats every week: [task].
   Ask me one question at a time about the steps, what goes into and comes out of each step, and how we check each step.
   Then write the map as a numbered list, and for each step give:
   1. Inputs
   2. Outputs
   3. Check
   4. When to retry (and how many times)
   5. When to stop
   6. When to ask me before going on
   Finish with a version of the map I can paste as instructions.

5. 5

   Step 5

   Put the map somewhere fixed

   Copy the map into the instructions of a Project in Claude or ChatGPT. Every week, open a new chat there and type "start this week's map" with your inputs.

   If you use scheduled tasks, you can run it at a fixed time.

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   Tip: For the first two weeks, have every step ask you before it goes on.

6. 6

   Step 6

   Review the map after the first week

   Look at where it stopped or asked you for no reason, and where it kept going when it should have stopped. Change only the retry, stop and ask rules.

   PromptMap review

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   This is my workflow map: [paste the map]
   This is what happened this week: [what happened]
   Suggest changes to the retry, stop and ask rules only, and tell me why for each change.