Tines aims to automate processes efficiently, ensuring that workflows, known as stories, are user-friendly regardless of users' familiarity with Tines or coding. Optimization of these stories involves balancing reduced actions, quick execution, and maintainability, tailored to team or company needs. Best practices include modularizing and condensing actions to streamline story runs and improve readability. Features like "Send to Story" allow modular execution of actions, while triggers manage conditional logic efficiently by condensing branches. The use of local values, customized outputs, and webhook filtering further refines story efficiency. Event transform actions offer modes such as explode, implode, and deduplication for managing data, while throttle and delay modes handle event flow to prevent issues like rate limits. The new automatic mode leverages LLMs to convert prompts into Python code, simplifying complex data transformations and reducing action counts. These strategies support efficient story building, with a focus on modular design, optimized triggers, and advanced data handling, ensuring ease of maintenance and improvement over time.