The prompt that shows what your AI actually knows about you (and it’s less than you might think)

Your AI greets you like an old friend, then hands back something painfully average. Sometimes it even refers to a job you left two years ago.  What your AI knows about you and what it simply assumes are two very different things, and the gap between them shapes every answer you get.  In this How …

Still arguing with AI over a bad first draft? Try these 4 tips

Do you still have a prompt formula saved somewhere, maybe an acronym from an Instagram reel that promised better answers from AI? You paste it in, swap a few words, hit send, and what comes back still misses the mark.  Years of typing a few keywords into a search box have shaped how we talk to AI,…

Your prompts are stuck in 2025. Here are 5 fixes

Some prompts have been with you for a year or more. They open with a grand persona for the AI, add a few rules in capital letters, and finish with a request to think it all through. They worked well once, and lately the results feel slightly off.  The AI models have changed, and a few of the habit…

Your custom GPTs and Gems are going away. Here's how to save them.

Who keeps moving my buttons? You know the one. You finally learn where everything lives, and overnight the menu has been rearranged, the feature has a new name, and the thing you spent months perfecting is on a list of things being retired.  In this How I AI episode, Neo and I make sense of the la…

AI is a terrible brainstormer (until you do this)

You ask AI for ideas and get a tidy list of ten, each one praised as being brilliant. The tempting move is to grab the first one that looks decent and get on with your day. The catch is that you've handed over the thinking, and what comes back tends to look a lot like what everyone else is getting.…

Your AI gets dumber at 60%. Here's the free fix.

Some of us have a favourite chat thread we keep coming back to, adding a bit more context every time we open it. It feels efficient, like you're building up a work buddy who really knows your stuff. But every extra message quietly chips away at how reliable that thread becomes, and by the time you …

The 4 recurring tasks you should hand off to AI permanently

Most people treat AI like a vending machine: you show up, you ask, you wait. But what if there's another way to use it, one where the work gets done before you've even thought to ask for it.  In this How I AI episode, Neo and I explore scheduled prompts: what they are, why they're worth setting up…

3 signs it's time to start a new chat thread

You've put in the work on your prompts. You know how to give AI the right context, set the right tone, ask the right questions. But then, mid-conversation, something shifts. The AI starts making things up, forgetting what you told it five minutes ago, contradicting itself.  In this How I AI episod…

The prompting mistake almost everyone makes

How much of your week goes into fixing what AI just handed you? Not writing from scratch, just cleaning up, correcting, and nudging a draft that looked fine for about ten seconds before you actually needed it to work.  That endless back and forth has a name. We call it slop fixing, and there is re…

Do these 2 things if you're worried about AI and the environment

There is a quiet guilt a lot of people carry every time they open ChatGPT. Somewhere between the headlines about data centres and the vague sense that AI is somehow worse for the planet than everything else we do without a second thought, it becomes easier to just feel bad than to actually work out…