Producing
Breaking it down
A request the system fails at every single time, however you rephrase it.
How it goes
do it yourself- Do the task yourself once, out loud, and note the real steps. There are always more of them than you thought.
- Give the first step on its own and check its result. Then the second, feeding it the first one’s result as material.
- Once the whole chain holds, and only then, ask for it to be run end to end.
What you get out of it
What was failing was not the task, it was its size: each step taken alone was comfortably within reach. You now know which one breaks, and that is the only one worth working on. It is also, exactly, how a workflow gets built.
Going further
Note which step breaks when you run the chain end to end. It is nearly always the one whose predecessor produced the longest result: accumulated material eventually drowns the instruction.