Why You Might Not Want to Use AI
Sometimes, the smartest move is not using AI
AI can do a lot.But that doesn’t mean you always should let it.
AI Quick Tips 274: GPT-5.2. web search and research tips (with prompt section example)
OpenAI’s prompting guide for GPT-5.2 has some really good information and guidance. Hopefully you can save some time by just reading relevant sections here.
AI Quick Tips 273: Lower hallucination risk with GPT-5.2 (and most other models as well)
Continuing with documentation snippets that may be useful for you, this post will go over the section on “Handling ambiguity and hallucination risk” from OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 prompting guide.
AI Quick Tips 272: Example of how to control GPT-5.2's verbosity
Since I know that most people don’t go through the technical documentation when new models come out (or ever), I want to point out sections that I think will help with people’s day-to-day AI tool usage.
The First Draft Is for You. The AI Is for the Edit.
Here’s one way to use ChatGPT that most people overlook:Start messy.Then let the bot clean it up.
AI Quick Tips 270: Add these elements to your prompts for better AI-generated images
There’s a lot of attention on image generation right now with the release of Google’s Nano Banana Pro (that’s Gemini 3 Pro Image Preview).
AI Quick Tips 269: What image aspect ratios does Nano Banana Pro support?
One of the useful features of the new Gemini 3 Pro Image model (aka Nano Banana Pro) is that it can easily create or edit images in a variety of aspect ratios. This is useful because different social media platforms require specific aspect ratios for images. And, of...
AI Quick Tips 267: Nano Banana image prompting best practices
Here are 6 best practices from Google to consider when prompting their image generation models (Nano Banana and Nano Banana Pro)
AI Quick Tips 265: Prompt iteration strategies
A lot of people, including me, recommend iterating as part of prompt engineering.
AI Quick Tips 264: Google Gemini 3 model parameters
This post is not for everyone. And, no, that isn’t a marketing/copywriting trick to instantly make you more interested.
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