The simplest AI playbook we know doesn't involve a single model. It's three questions, asked by YOU to YOU. They work for any size company, any seniority level: - What are the three things, in order of importance, you must do to meet or exceed expectations in your gig? - What are three things you think you're supposed to be doing that make no sense, could be done better or not at all? - What are three things AI could do better than you to 10x your output? That's it. Nine answers per person. - Worst case: You force clarity and alignment with your boss. Everyone walks out knowing what actually matters. - Best case: You kill the dumb stuff and fill your days with truly vital work — with AI handling what shouldn't have been on a human's…
I'm offering you four specific ways to get more out of AI this week: better prompting , improving AI memory (tonight), starting a business using AI (tomorrow) and running a business using AI (Thursday). You nailed the perfect prompt. The output sang. You saved your Super Prompt. Then, you opened a new chat the next morning and AI acted like you'd never met. - It's not broken. You just haven't taught it to remember YOU. Why it matters: Master what AI stores, what it can reference from your past and how to direct both — and your chats will start smarter. This is how you unlock next-level prompting and results. - The basics take 10 minutes. The payoff compounds forever. A quick primer on AI memory: Think of it as two layers. - Inside a…
Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and Axios chief technology officer Dan Cox were chatting about how to share the basics of AI, and this prompting primer was born: The No. 1 pushback we get from AI skeptics or newbies is: "It's overhyped. I asked it something and it spit out an unimpressive answer!" - Truth bomb: It's not the AI. It's you. Why it matters: Ask top large language models like ChatGPT something simple or generic, and you will get a simple or generic answer. Ask the right questions the right way, and you will often get magic. Jim asked Dan Cox, our CTO and AI leader, to help him craft six ways for ordinary users to get more extraordinary answers. It starts with prompts — the very questions you pose to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok or…