I finally stopped treating AI like a search engine after a dumb test at my kitchen table
For 6 months I was typing one line questions into chatbots and walking away mad when the answers felt flat. Last week my brother in Reno asked me to help him write a cover letter, and out of laziness I pasted a messy paragraph of his work history with a couple of typos still in it. The reply came back weirdly good, and it hit me that I had been giving the model nothing to work with. Turns out a real paragraph of context beats ten clever one liners. Does anyone else have a moment like this or am I just late to the party?