The Vaughn Tan Rule: A Simple Framework for Working with AI – cheerful.egg
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The Vaughn Tan Rule: A Simple Framework for Working with AI – cheerful.egg
How to Work with Al - Without Losing the Work
• Choose your epistemology: What do you want to know, and what do you trust?
• Frame before you feed: LLMS will give you answers to bad questions. So design better questions.
• Simulate, don't surrender: Use models to stretch scenarios, not decide strategy.
• Decide what's sacred: Which parts of your
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The world's most sophisticated algorithms can't save you from your own blind spots.
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