The key to working with your timid scribe is understanding its strengths and limitations. My experience with AI so far has shown me that AI is brilliant at:

1. Pulling out ideas I didn't know I had (by asking me smart questions)


2. Creating structure from my scattered thoughts


3. Remembering all the context and examples I've shared


4. Generating options when I'm s

we regularly fed chapters into a Gen AI tool and prompted it to provide a 1-star negative review along with a criticism of our text. We also asked our Gen AI tool to read and summarize various chapters of the book from several perspectives: including a 19-year-old college student, a startup founder, and a chief marketing officer. This tactic helped

When to Use O1

📝 Nat Eliason uses O1 in two specific scenarios:

• 🐞 When Sonnet (another AI model) struggles to fix an issue in his code.


• 🗺️ When planning a larger project or feature, such as preparing an app for deployment.


• ✅ As an example of the latter, Nat used O1 to do a final code review for the course's 'pod buddy' tool, where it considered se