A Field Guide
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Working With AI

Jesal Mehta

Fifteen principles for treating AI as a collaborator - not just an autocomplete. Read them in order, or jump to whichever you need right now.

  1. 01 Working With AI Is Not Just Prompting →
  2. 02 The Core Rule →
  3. 03 Four Levels of Working With AI →
  4. 04 Give AI a Task, Not Just a Topic →
  5. 05 Context Changes the Answer →
  6. 06 Your Own Knowledge Matters →
  7. 07 Articulation Is a Force Multiplier →
  8. 08 Ask the AI to Ask You Questions →
  9. 09 Prompting Can Clarify Your Own Thinking →
  10. 10 Control the Level of Abstraction →
  11. 11 Give AI Material to Work With →
  12. 12 Define What “Good” Means →
  13. 13 Separate Generation From Evaluation →
  14. 14 Iteration Is the Method →
  15. 15 Do Not Confuse Confidence With Correctness →
  16. 16 The Four Things You Bring to the Conversation →

Good AI use depends on knowing what matters - or wisely using the conversation to find out.

Jesal Mehta