Getting Started With AI: Good Enough Prompting

So, if the models are capable of all of this, what actually stops people from getting the most out of them?

1. Ambition: Not enough people ask the model to help them with real work. They ask it to help them with drafting email or coming up with funny songs.


2. Patience: How much context are you willing to provide it to help you? How does it compare to the

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Here are my four principles of working with AI: Principle 1: Always invite AI to the table. You should try inviting AI to help you in everything you do, barring legal or ethical barriers. As you experiment, you may find that AI help can be satisfying, or frustrating, or useless, or unnerving. But you aren’t just doing this for help alone; familiari

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You should try inviting AI to help you in everything you do, barring legal or ethical barriers. As you experiment, you may find that AI help can be satisfying, or frustrating, or useless, or unnerving. But you aren’t just doing this for help alone; familiarizing yourself with AI’s capabilities allows you to better understand how it can assist you—o

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A lot of active research is happening around the best way to “program” an LLM, but one practical implication is that it can help to give the AI explicit instructions that go step by step through what you want. One approach, called chain-of-thought prompting, gives the AI an example of how you want it to reason, before you make your request. Even mo

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