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𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐀𝐈 𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭?

One key to successfully adopting AI into your workflow is knowing to which tasks AI is suited.
❌ Tasks which are too complex/big will fail
❌ Tasks which are too small don't bring you benefit

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Working with a small team and heavily adopting AI to help us ship faster and build our startup, I've learned to triage the tasks I delegate to AI as follows:
✅ Touches max 3 files
✅ Clear success criteria
✅ Single repository
✅ No gotchas
✅ Would take up to 3 hours without AI

When I go through our development backlog looking for these sorts of issues, what I find we're left with tends to include
✅ All minor bugs
✅ UI tweaks
✅ Chore tasks (e.g. adding proper error handling)

In summary, what we call "low-surface context" tasks, where the path to resolution is clear and straightforward.


P.s.
🤖 I've built a script that goes through your Linear and triages your tasks according to these criteria, to add an AI-ready label. I shared it with my substack subscribers. If you're interested, comment below and I'll send you the link.
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