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Welcome back to Easy Business with Kromaite.
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I'm your host, Marina Kromaite.
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Here we are at the episode four, still going.
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Honestly, I'm a little bit surprised by myself.
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So last episode I promised you this one.
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How
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to actually talk to AI?
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Because there is a real skill to it.
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Or there was.
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It's changed.
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But understanding it,
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still makes everything work
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better.
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And that's what we are talking about today.
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I'm going to share
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what actually worked for me,
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how I went from
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getting generic
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output
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to getting things that sounded like me,
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the lazy shortcut I found along the way
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because
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I am very lazy.
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And that turned out to be a feature actually.
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So here's what I actually did.
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I started asking AI to write posts for me.
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And social media
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mainly.
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And the first
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version was always okay.
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Not bad.
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But not really me.
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So I read it
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and
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I'll tell AI what I didn't like.
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Tell AI what I did like.
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And I asked it to try again
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and then again and again.
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And it got better.
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The next post
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less editing.
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The one after that even less.
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At some point,
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I'd ask for a post
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and barely touch it.
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But when I discovered custom
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GPTs.
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For those
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who haven't tried this yet,
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in ChatGPT, you can create your own version of GPT
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with a specific purpose.
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You write instructions
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of how it should behave.
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And this is the point that actually matters you can upload files.
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Your actual posts,
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the ones you liked
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real example
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of how you write.
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not generic instructions.
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Your actual stuff.
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And it learns from that.
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So I only wrote posts there,
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not in the regular chat,
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just in my custom one.
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And it was really good.
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But I'm lazy.
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Even when AI knows your voice, you still have to tell it
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what you want to say.
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And sometimes what I typed
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wasn't exactly clear.
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I just dumped whatever was in my head.
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So I built a second custom GPT.
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One that took my messy thoughts and turn them
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into a clean
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proper prompt
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that I'd copy and paste into the first one.
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Two custom GPTs
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My messy thoughts in the middle,
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very elegant system.
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And it worked.
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Until at some point the output
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just felt different,
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a bit off.
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The model has changed
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and the results
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changed with it.
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Not broken,
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just not quite the same anymore.
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So I switched to another tool.
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And then another,
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until I found one that worked
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again.
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That's just how it goes with the AI right now. You find something that works, you use it.
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And then when it shifts,
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you move
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Not a big deal.
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What I do is bring in
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the posts I liked from before,
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show them to the new tool,
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and say, write me something in this style.
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and we'd start fresh.
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That still works,
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always does.
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Okay,
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so what did
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all of that teach you?
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The thing that makes
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AI output actually useful,
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context.
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The more you give it,
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the better it does.
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That hasn't changed,
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even as tools got smarter.
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There is a simple way
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to think about it.
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Three things every time.
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Who you are
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and who you're talking to.
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Not just I have a coaching business.
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No, more like who's your client,
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what do they struggle with,
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what's the situation right now,
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the specific stuff.
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Well,
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what you actually want.
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Write this e-mail.
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Give me five ideas. Keep it under
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a hundred words.
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very specific.
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what you don't want.
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This one matters a lot.
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For example,
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no fluff, not too formal, not salesy.
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Don't use corporate language,
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whatever your limits are.
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Say them.
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Three things.
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That's it.
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Here's what the difference looks like in practice.
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Sales e-mail without context.
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Prompt.
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Write a sales e-mail for the coaching business.
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That's it.
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You'll get something technically fine.
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that sounds like every coaching e-mail ever written.
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Now, with the context,
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the prompt will be:
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I work with solo consultants
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who are overwhelmed
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by administrative work.
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This e-mail goes to
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someone
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who downloaded my free guide last week.
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They know me
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but they're not ready to buy.
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Three paragraphs max.
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Offer a free 20-minute call.
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Warm tone, not salesy.
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No hype.
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Same task,
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completely different results. You can even try
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on your own and see how it works.
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That's the best thing to do,
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to actually go ahead and check the tools and see how it works with
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different prompts.
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The other thing, content ideas without context
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Give me blog post ideas. That's it, right?
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But with context,
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it's gonna be I did bookkeeping for creative freelancers. Photographers, designers, writers
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who hate
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numbers.
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They are scared of taxes and usually disorganized.
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I want post ideas that make this feel less overwhelming.
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titles,
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not how to do your taxes.
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Something that sounds like an actual person wrote it.
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You are not hoping it guesses right.
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what right looks like.
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One more thing.
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OpenAI actually has an official prompting guide,
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a cookbook, they call it.
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They even made a version, you can install directly into ChatGPT.
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Claude has the documentation
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too.
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These exist,
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they worth knowing about.
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But honestly, my shortcut is my simpler than any of
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that.
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After the first response, I just asked,
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what else would help me make this better?
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That's it.
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It tells me
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What is missing.
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I give it that.
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It gets better.
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Here's the honest question.
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Do you even need this anymore?
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AI has gotten so much better. I mean, really.
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What took
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careful prompting 2 years ago?
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figures out.
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You can be messier,
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less precise. It handles more on its own.
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It's less about writing the perfect prompt
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and more about having a real conversation with it,
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asking follow-up questions,
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saying what's not working,
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telling it
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what you like.
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Iterating
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GPTs, the gems in Gemini,
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The projects in Claude.
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These are all ways to do what
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I was doing manually.
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You set it up fast with your context,
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your examples, your rules,
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and then you don't have to explain yourself every single time.
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That's where the real time saving is.
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But the core thing,
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give it more,
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you get more back.
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still true.
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I think it always will be.
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context still matter.
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Iteration still matters.
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The tools keep changing
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and that's fine. You just find what works, use it and move on when it doesn't.
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Do what works for you.
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Try something,
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see if it fits,
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adjust if it doesn't.
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There is no one right way.
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What works for me, I'm sharing here.
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It might work for you too.
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that's episode 4.
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Quick recap,
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use more context.
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You're gonna get better output.
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Three things to remember
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is who,
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what, and what's not.
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and iterate. Don't give up after your first version.
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And when
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a tool stops working for you, just switch.
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There are a lot of them right now, and you don't have to be stuck with one that don't work for you anymore.
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Grab my e-book if you want to go deeper, link is in the show notes, or just go to ymniza.com.
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If you have any questions,
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email me at
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[email protected]
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Next episode,
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the business task you think takes hours, but AI can do in 10 minutes.
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I'll show you exactly which one.
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Till then, stay smart, stay human,
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and remember,
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AI works for you.
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Bye for now.
