Most tutorials focus on what AI can do. Yawn. Stretch. Nod. Sleep.

We’d rather show you how you can actually make it do what you want.

After you’ve gone through the interface of your AI tool of choice - like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini - it might be helpful to have some straightforward prompting templates to come back to.

Have you ever heard someone say out loud, “Blue circle. Trees are good”? That’s what your emoji-filled content sounds like to someone using a screen reader.

Answering your questions about business and technology

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Some people that I talk to tell me that I am supposed to talk to ChatGPT like it’s a human and other people tell me not to ever do that.  Who should I listen to?~ L.B.

If ChatGPT were a new hire, it would be that overly formal coworker who starts every freakin email with “Per my last email…..” and thinks “Best regards” is edgy.  Here’s how you can start by fixing that.

Before you throw shade at AI’s carbon footprint, let’s talk about your Netflix habit.

When you start paying attention to the models that you are using with AI tools, you’ll eventually come across flash models.  These are smaller, faster models that can’t do as much as some other models but you may want to use them anyway.

“I tried ChatGPT once and it was just useless, so I stopped.”

That’s one of the most common things we hear. And we get it.

With the release of GPT-5, OpenAI hoped to make things less confusing for the average ChatGPT user.  I’m not sure they succeeded. 

Answering your questions about business and technology

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When I ask GPT-5 to ask me clarifying questions, it doesn’t seem to ask as many as previous models did.  Am I doing something wrong?~ Anonymous