by John Macdonald | Oct 31, 2025 | AI, The250
Unlike with humans, where less is more and simplicity is king, AI needs more words from you. Brevity doesn’t help. Succinctness doesn’t help. Inference definitely doesn’t help. AI doesn’t infer what you meant, only what you typed. Verbosity helps.... by John Macdonald | Oct 30, 2025 | AI, The250
AI works much better if both you and it know who it is — which role each of you is playing. The first thing to remember is that you’re the boss. You’re always the boss. To get the most and the best out of an LLM, you have to think and direct as the boss. ... by John Macdonald | Oct 29, 2025 | AI, The250
AI can be both the most brilliant teammate or the worst. It all comes down to how you talk to it. Talk to it? Yes. ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are Large Language Models (LLM). They understand language (maybe like humans, maybe not, the jury is still... by John Macdonald | Oct 28, 2025 | AI, The250
With humans, less is more. Less description. Less narrative. Less words. Less is more because our brains work better with simple. KISS. Simple is more coherent. Simple is easier to understand. Simple reaches more people. Simple is more memorable. ... by John Macdonald | Oct 20, 2025 | AI, The250
I talk a lot here about what AI can help you do. How you can and should be using it. However, here are some things it can’t, and will never be able to do. It can’t help you want. It can’t make you care.It can’t replace courage.It can’t tell a story about your son... by John Macdonald | Oct 19, 2025 | AI, The250
When we talk about productivity with people, we’re generally talking about doing more in the same amount of time. Better efficiency. How can we minimize steps? How can we reduce repetitiveness? We sometimes call it working smarter, not harder. We rarely mean we...