Getting Garbage from AI? You're Not Prompting. You're Just… Chatting.
You’ve been there, right? Staring at your screen, another project looming.
You’ve been there, right? Staring at your screen, another project looming.
You see other people getting "outsized results" with AI, and the fear is real: you feel like you're being outpaced. You're not looking to become a data scientist.
You signed up for a Coursera course with high hopes. You were finally going to learn AI.
For years, it felt like the path to using technology in a serious way ran through one place: learning to code. If you couldn't speak Python or JavaScript, you were kind of on the sidelines.
Is AI going to take your job? The answer to that is no, but it will change how you work completely, and probably not in the way that you think.
When you ask most people, they think they're doing AI pretty well. But it's only when they're kind of confronted or shown what other people are doing that they realize they're just scratching the surface.
You're using AI every day. You've increased your output.
I was having a conversation with Carol, one of the members of my community, who does product management. One of the things she thought AI could help her with was just email because she just really doesn’t like writing email.
Are you tired of spending more time editing the generic blandness out of AI's work than it would've taken to write it yourself? Most people are frustrated because they see AI as a magical black box.