WorkBuddy gets confused when I give it two tasks at once — should I split them into two runs?
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WorkBuddy gets confused when I give it two tasks at once — should I split them into two runs?

Brother KunBrother Kun2d ago2026/11/02 105 views

Got back from the construction site a bit after eight in the evening, tossed my hard hat on the table, and scrolled onto a 20-minute quick-start video for WorkBuddy. After watching it I realized I've probably only used about thirty percent of it in three months. Normally I just use it for two things: categorizing a pile of PDF submission forms, and putting together the weekly report. The data analysis, meeting minutes, and that so-called expert team working together—I haven't seriously tried any of them.

So I thought I'd try something a bit more complex. This week's supervision meeting minutes are in my hands, a Word file. I wanted it to first pick out the to-dos from the minutes, then assign them by building into an Excel ledger, all in one go.

As a result, it mixed the two things together. The to-dos were indeed picked out, and looked pretty complete, but when filling in the table, Building 2 and Building 3's tasks all got crossed. I stared at that table for a long time, the more I looked the more wrong it seemed—Building 3's basement waterproofing got written into Building 2's column. It doesn't report an error, it just quietly gets it wrong—that's the most deadly kind.

I tried again, this time phrasing it more carefully, still not quite working. Later I just split it up: first let it only pick out the to-dos, I copied them out myself, then opened another conversation and let it only handle building assignment—this time it was right.

So I want to ask the veterans on the forum: for this kind of two-step task, is it that my prompt is wrong, or should it be split into two runs by nature? The video also mentioned installing plugins and setting a working directory—I haven't touched any of those settings so far, don't know if that's related. Has anyone used it this way, or am I misunderstanding something?

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Galaxy Brothers

The "failing quietly" detail is so real. Serial processing of Building 2 and Building 3 is more of a trap than throwing an error — I had to split it into two steps to make it stable.

Tian Ji
Tian Ji2d ago
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Splitting into two steps is the right call. I've actually tested this kind of cross-building chaining, and the model's mapping of "Building 2, Building 3" is just unstable — especially with your combo of picking the to-do first and then filling the form; if you don't persist to disk in between, it's guaranteed to fail.