AI School

By reading with LLMs, I mean either loading a specific text into an LLM and accessing it indirectly ( interrogative play ), or using an LLM on a parallel track to support direct reading ( perspectival play ), with the relative loading of each mode being a function of your expertise and/or enjoyment level in the subject.

My Prompt

Help me develop a learning approach .... If you need more information from me, ask me 2 key questions. If I should upload any documents that would help you do a better job, let me know...

• Topic: I'd like to learn about how the most modern continuous glucose monitors work...


• Further guidance: You can use a variety of methods to help me l

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Step 1: Identify your knowledge gaps

Before opening ChatGPT, ask yourself: "What would an expert in this field know that I don't?" If you can't answer that clearly, you're not ready to assign the task yet.

Recursive prompting isn’t just a personal trick. It’s a missing skill for millions of people who use AI every day at work without realizing they’re using it wrong.

It flips the entire script. Instead of asking AI to do tasks you don't understand, you use AI to build the understanding you need, then guide it to execute at a higher level.

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Use branching to explore alternatives. Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini all let you edit prompts after you have gotten an answer. This creates a new “branch” of the conversation. You can move between branches by using the arrows that appear after you have edited an answer. It is a good way to learn how your prompts impact the conversation.

Voice mode's killer feature isn't the natural conversation, though, it's the ability to share your screen or camera. Point your phone at a broken appliance, a math problem, a recipe you're following, or a sign in a foreign language. The AI sees what you see and responds in real-time. I've used it to identify plants on hikes, solve a problem on my s... See more