The Two Rules That Changed Everything

Rule 1: Start a fresh conversation. Just start again.

When an AI gives you a mediocre or wrong answer, your instinct is to correct it. But often the AI has committed to an approach, and it will keep trying to make that approach work.

The fix? Start a fresh conversation. Give it a cleaner prompt with better context.

Prompting is a real skill. The gap between people who say "AI is overhyped" and people who say "AI changed my life" is almost always the gap in how they use it.

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Rule 2: Measure Twice, Cut Once

This lesson cost me hundreds of hours before I learned it.

I started planning first. Not big, formal planning documents. Just 10 minutes of structured thinking before touching any code. The difference was dramatic.

Framewright (framewright.site) is a free, open-source planning tool that helps you create structured specifications before you write code.

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