Tool Use - AI Conversations

From Marketer to Growth Engineer Using AI (ft Justin Borge)

Tool Use - AI Conversations

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Unlock the ability to build AI tools without coding experience as Justin Borge joins Tool Use to demonstrate how he built Helios, a personal management system, using only LLMs like Gemini and Claude. Justin breaks down his transition from marketer to growth engineer, sharing his exact workflows for using JSON documentation to give AI a perfect memory of his business and goals. He reveals his unique "bullying" strategy for debugging code using persona-based prompts and explains how he created a human-in-the-loop system to safely edit local files without hallucinations. This conversation covers everything from writing your first Python script to mastering meta-prompting for maximum productivity.

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00:00:00 - Intro 00:03:49 - Top AI Tools & JSON Workflows 00:10:06 - Transitioning from Marketing to Engineering 00:12:23 - How to Debug Code Without Coding Knowledge 00:13:56 - Persona Prompting & "Bullying" LLMs 00:18:09 - Live Demo: Helios AI Management System 00:31:29 - How to Start Building AI Tools Today

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