Nobody Knows What They're Doing With AI
Plenty of blog posts say they do. Most of the clever prompting has never been tested against just asking.
Nobody really knows what they’re doing with AI, despite writing loads of blog posts like they do.
Most people just love to feel smart with excessively descriptive prompting, but have most likely never tested it against just asking it to do the task.
“You’re the best sales rep in the world and the top performing AE in history. Write me a great sales email.”
“Write me a great sales email” would perform the same.
OpenClaw taught me that. It’s a toy, but wrestling with it got me up to speed with Claude Code, and showed me the power of these things even when lazy prompted. It’s just telling a computer what to do.