http://programmer.ie/tags/living-archive/ Recent content in Living Archive on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/freestyle-cognition/07-chapter/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/freestyle-cognition/07-chapter/ <blockquote> <p>&ldquo;Study the past if you would define the future.&rdquo;</p></blockquote> <h2 id="-summary">📘 Summary</h2> <p>This chapter introduces <strong>Rework</strong> the practice of using new tools to finish old ideas</p> <p>You’ll learn how to:</p> <ul> <li>Surface unfinished or incomplete sessions from your archive</li> <li>Apply a new algorithm or prompting technique to see if it improves them</li> <li>Use the <strong>ROW</strong> prompting technique to reason through new knowledge</li> <li>Use the <strong>CRITIC</strong> prompting technique to analyze why a session stalled or never crystallized</li> <li>Use the <strong>GROW</strong> prompting technique to make the final</li> <li>Decide whether to rework, discard, or merge the session with newer work</li> <li>Crystallize old ideas into something usable a blog post, a feature, a framework</li> </ul> <p>More importantly, you’ll discover that:</p>