I built my project plans during my second week at a new job, back when I understood maybe a third of what I was hearing. Two months later I opened one of them and nothing in it meant anything to me. So instead of fixing it from memory, I pointed Claude at four months of meetings, Slack, and email and had it rebuild the whole thing from the record. It found work I'd completely forgotten finishing, and tasks I'd agreed to and never written down.

There was a conversation I needed to have with another program manager, and I kept not having it. He didn't report to me, he was good at the job, and I didn't want to spend the working relationship badly. So I practiced it first, against a Gem built to play him. It pushed back the way he pushes back, told me exactly where I was hedging, and by the time I sat down with the real person, nothing in it was a surprise. Full prompt at the bottom of the post.