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< Day 7 — Tuesday, Feb 24 >

Jigs & Reliability

Learning Targets

Knowledge

  • Jigs concept — the gap between demo and reliable system
  • Making AI workflows reproducible
  • Edge cases and real data flows

Skills

  • Identifying fragile workflows in your app
  • Building with reliability in mind
  • Hardening from demo to tool

Mindset

  • Demo → system thinking
  • It works every time ≠ it works when I demo it

Today’s Schedule

Day 7 session schedule
TimeBlockWhat Happens
8:30 AM Morning Exercise Jigs prep: identify one workflow in your app that needs to work reliably every time. Describe what could go wrong. Post in #hds-general.
By 9:30 AM Exercise Due Post in #hds-general
10:00–10:45 AM Group Session Quick sharing: “Where is your app after yesterday? What’s working? What’s fragile?” Frame jigs concept before Justin arrives.
10:45–11:00 AM Break
11:00 AM–12:00 PM Guest Speaker Justin Massa — Jigs: making AI workflows reproducible and reliable. Students have apps in progress, so the talk lands on concrete projects. Q&A.
12:00–1:00 PM Lunch
1:00–3:00 PM Build Time Build with jigs thinking fresh in mind. Apps start getting serious — reliability, edge cases, real data flows.
3:00 PM Deliverable Post PRD with reliability/jigs considerations + new build in Slack. Push to GitHub.
3:30–4:30 PM Group Debrief Share hardening progress. What jigs did you apply?

Guest Speaker

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Justin Massa

Remix Partners — Jigs — Hardening AI Workflows. Making AI workflows reproducible and reliable. Moving beyond prototypes to systems that work every time.

Deliverables

  • PRD with reliability/jigs considerations
  • New build with hardened workflows