Status Report: Days 1-3 | Craig's AI Education Project

📈 Summary Statistics

15+

HTML Files Created

4

Diary Entries

5

Directories Created

6-8

Hours Saved Today (9x)

Workflow Evolution

Day 1: Planning and strategy
Day 2: File migration and structure
Day 3: Content creation begins + debugging addendum system
Day 4: Major content sprint - collaboration hub fully built

Key Innovations

Diary-as-context carrier (upload previous day's diary)
Addendum link system for supplementary notes
Building in Public philosophy as site differentiator
Transparent documentation of AI collaboration process

✅ Files Created - Days 1-4

Day 1 (Feb 14) - Planning & Initial Structure

AI-NEW.html (new landing page)
PROJECT-STRUCTURE.html (4-week plan)
2026-02-14-PROJECT-DIARY.html
project-diary.html (diary index)

Day 2 (Feb 15) - File Migration & System Setup

2026-02-15-PROJECT-DIARY.html
Directory structure: collaboration/, building-in-public/, addendum/, TMA/, pre-refactor/

Day 3 AM (Feb 16) - Episode 2 Start

working-with-ai.html (Episode 2)
2026-02-16_AM-PROJECT-DIARY.html
2026-02-16-my-WWNTO.txt (addendum)

Day 3 PM (Feb 16) - Addendum System

2026-02-16_PM-PROJECT-DIARY.html
2026-02-16-my-WWNTO_II.txt (addendum)
Addendum link system implemented

Day 4 (Feb 17) - Collaboration Hub Build

collaboration/index.html (hub page)
use-case-documentation.html
lessons-learned.html
efficiency-multiplier.html

📝 Files Still To Create

🔴 HIGH PRIORITY

2026-02-17-PROJECT-DIARY.html
Day 4 diary entry documenting today's work
STATUS: Ready to generate
Episode 3: How Does an AI Work?
Explaining AI architecture and function
Location: TBD (likely collaboration/ or fundamentals/)
STATUS: Not started

🟡 MEDIUM PRIORITY

episodes.html
Landing page for episodic content
Referenced in working-with-ai.html navigation
about.html
About Craig and the project
Referenced in working-with-ai.html navigation

⚪ LOWER PRIORITY (Phase 2-4 from PROJECT-STRUCTURE.html)

fundamentals/ directory content:

what-is-ai.html
how-ai-works.html
ai-terminology.html (glossary)

architecture/ directory content:

the-stack.html (12-component framework)
llm-architecture.html
neural-networks.html
tokenization.html

use-cases/ directory content:

documentation.html
automation.html
analysis.html

resources/ directory reorganization:

tools-list.html
learning-paths.html
glossary.html
further-reading.html

learning/ directory content:

assessment.html
learning-plan.html
recommended-path.html

🔧 Pending Tasks - Not File Creation

Manual Edits Required (Craig to do)

Update AI-NEW.html navigation
Add link to collaboration/index.html in the collaboration card
Update "Last updated" date from Feb 16 → Feb 17
Code snippet ready to paste
Update project-diary.html
Add Day 4 entry link (2026-02-17-PROJECT-DIARY.html)
Code snippet ready to paste

Deployment Tasks

Replace AI-NEW.html with AI-NEW.html
Backup current AI-NEW.html to pre-refactor/, deploy AI-NEW.html as AI-NEW.html
STATUS: Deferred to later
File location verification
Ensure all collaboration/* files are in correct locations, verify all links work
STATUS: Ongoing
Directory reorganization (Phase 2-4)
Create /learning/, /resources/, /fundamentals/, /architecture/ directories
Move existing files into new structure
STATUS: Deferred to Weeks 2-4

📊 Work Completed vs. Original Plan

Week 1 Goals (Current Week)

Phase 1: Create New Sections

✅ COMPLETED

/collaboration/ directory created
Diary system operational (index + 4 diary entries)
working-with-ai.html (Episode 2)
use-case-documentation.html (Episode 2)
lessons-learned.html (Episode 2)
efficiency-multiplier.html (bonus content)
collaboration/index.html (hub page)
AI-NEW.html (new landing page created)

❌ NOT COMPLETED

Episode 3: How Does an AI Work?
/learning/ directory creation
/resources/ directory creation
AI-NEW.html deployment (new landing page still in staging)

🎯 Next Session Priorities

Generate Day 4 diary (2026-02-17-PROJECT-DIARY.html) ← IMMEDIATE
Manual edits: AI-NEW.html + project-diary.html ← MANUAL (Craig)
Episode 3: How Does an AI Work? ← HIGH PRIORITY
episodes.html landing page ← MEDIUM
about.html page ← MEDIUM

🔧 Bash Script Debugging Work

(Not tracked in main plan)

Ansible Disk Usage Script

PROBLEM: Field offset wrong (using $5 instead of $6 for df -hT)
PROBLEM: Nested pipe inside quoted string causing line continuation issues
SOLUTION: Fixed field numbers, removed backslash line continuation
STATUS: Saved for later completion (90 minutes invested)