“Do it for me”

Halfway through typing “what should I say to…” I stopped.

Deleted it. Wrote instead: “Send them a message saying we’re still reviewing and will have an update by Friday.”

Thirty seconds later: a Telegram notification. Sent.

I had been using Claude Code for weeks at that point. Not like this.

The default when you first use an AI is to ask it questions. What should I do here? How should I handle this? What’s the right approach?

Good answers, often. You read them, synthesise, and then go act on them yourself.

You are still the one doing things.

“What should I say” produces advice. “Say this” produces an outcome. The difference sounds like semantics. It isn’t.

Every task has two versions: the advice version and the execution version.

Most people using AI tools are in advice mode by default. They describe a situation, receive guidance, and then go do the thing themselves. The thing still gets done by them.

When I started asking Claude Code to execute instead of advise — not “how should I handle this?” but “handle this” — fewer things were passing through me on the way to done.

That is a different kind of leverage than thinking faster.

The three words aren’t a trick. They’re a habit.

Every time you find yourself explaining a situation to Claude, pause before you finish the sentence. Ask: can I end this with “do it for me”?

The answer will often be yes. More often than you expect.