The Brief-Back Prompt: Make Your AI Repeat the Assignment Before It Starts
An old classroom trick for modern models: before any big task, ask the AI to restate the job, flag its risky assumptions and ask you three questions.
by Jonah Kim
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We Let an AI Agent Run Our Editorial Ops for a Week. Here's the Time Log.
Draft-chasing, tagging, the newsletter, the calendar: we handed a magazine's invisible second job to an agent, with four permission levels and one office whiteboard. Here's what it saved and where it broke.
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The Pre-Mortem Prompt: Ask AI How Your Project Already Failed
Imagine it's six months from now and the plan has flopped. This prompt turns that grim fantasy into ranked risks, early warning signs and one cheap test to run this week.
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AI Note-Takers, Reviewed by Type: Bots, Built-Ins, On-Device and DIY
Product reviews go stale in a month. The kind of meeting note-taker you choose decides most of what you'll love and hate about it. We compared all four.
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The Context File: One Page That Makes Every AI Tool Work Better for You
Every new chat starts with a brilliant stranger. A short, well-kept document about who you are and how you work fixes that across every assistant you use. Here's how to write one.
by Lena Hartmann
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