Your automations suck because they lack granularity - Automation Tip #2

all right guys automation tip number two now this is a series that i'm doing on my channel where i'm just going to explain a bunch of short and simple automation tips you can apply instantly to your ai workflows and agents and they're going to make them a heck of a lot more reliable and so with that out of the way the second tip that we're going to discuss today is that more granularity is good the more detail in which you can describe your entire process you know the process that you're trying to automate the better it's going to be and the more reliable it's going to be and the easier it's going to be to automate it. Because look, when you can describe the entire process in way more detail, it means you have a much more intricate understanding of all the steps that go into this process, right? You understand every single tiny step in the entire chain way more deeply. Not only that, but it also means you have a much lower chance of missing some critical step in the process, right? And you'd be surprised how common that is, right? If you can't explain the entire process in a very deep level of detail, you're probably missing a couple of steps, right? If you're doing this process manually right now, you're probably just getting used to it, you're developing the muscle memory, and you're forgetting all the tiny things you're doing in between, right? So if you can describe that process in a more granular level, you're going to have a much easier time automating it. Otherwise, you're just going to miss critical details and steps, and it's going to become a problem later, right? And the best example for this is, like, the best example I can give you about this is just my video editor over here, which is just automatically editing and posting all of my content for me, right? This has some pretty advanced automations, but it didn't start out that way. I started by having really tiny automations that automated some tiny task for me and then I just chained them together and kept adding more as I understood the process better right Like I was like at first I just need to process the audio right So I added a bunch of scripts to process the audio to normalize it to apply noise reduction to do all sorts of other things, right? And to then attach it back to the original video, right? That's one tiny step of the entire pipeline. Then I figured out how to trim the silences using AI models like Cilero, VAD, and Whisper, and all these other things, right? And so I added a step for that. Then when I invested in better cameras and equipment, that i got actual 4k videos over here i had to downscale them to 1080p so i could edit them and so i built a step for that right none of this happened all at once right i had to figure out each step in the entire chain i did it manually multiple times so i understood the entire process way more like in way more detail and then i was able to automate it and if you if you were to ask me exactly what's going on in this entire code base i could explain it to you in such deep detail because I understand the entire process so deeply like I just take you step by step in the entire pipeline through the entire chain exactly what's going on how a video is fed into this chain and what the what each step is that it goes through and how it outputs a final video file for us I understand the process very deeply and that is exactly why I'm able to automate such complex things and that's my tip for today always try to describe the task you're trying to automate in as much detail as you possibly can. Because here's the thing, if you can't describe the task in really, really granular levels of detail, you probably don't understand it well enough anyway. And if you don't understand it, you're not going to be able to automate it. Simple as that. So always make sure that you can describe the task in very precise details. Once you can do that, and once you've proven that you actually understand the entire process, go ahead and automate it. At that point, it should be very easy for you.