Your POV on AI: What part of working with AI took more time to get right than you expected?

Weโ€™re curious about those light bulb moments โ€” the shifts in how you use AI that suddenly made it significantly more helpful.

A couple of examples from the team to get you thinking:

:backhand_index_pointing_right: For one of us realised how much better the output became when we gave AI proper context โ€” things like the tone we wanted, the structure of the output, or a few examples to follow.

:backhand_index_pointing_right: Another had a breakthrough when they stopped taking the first response at face value. They started iterating โ€” using the first draft as a base, editing it, then looping it back in. That back-and-forth really unlocked better results.

What was your unlock?

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Iโ€™d say my unlock was when I started treating AI like a really knowledgeable intern.

What I mean by that is: I stopped expecting the first response to be amazing. Iโ€™ve got friends who dismiss AI because the first thing it gives them isnโ€™t perfect and I used to do the same.

But once I realised the real value comes from building on that first response โ€” iterating, refining, asking follow-ups.

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My unlock was when I started bothering to pay for the tools.

I used to only use the free versions of both ChatGPT and Claude, but now I pay for them โ€” and Iโ€™m getting significantly better results than I used to.

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Interesting question.

Iโ€™d agree with you. I think the moment I really started understanding how to use AI properly was when I realised how important it is to give it context.

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It took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out how to write prompts correctly.

I started using a tools called prompt cowboy. Would recommend everyone checks it out.

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