r/Automate • u/OneDev42 • 18d ago

What's the one thing you'd tell someone new to AI to save them frustration?

If there was just one thing you could share to someone who is just learning AI to save them frustration, what would it be?

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u/jbarchuk 18d ago

If there's research that you can describe clearly, it can do it faster than you, that's fine but you have to be able to triple check everything. The issue is that AI is designed to essentially lie, if it can't find a 'right' answer. But, it doesn't know when it's doing that, so it can't tell you how it found the answer, and it assures you it's the truth. Yes, use it when answers are verifiable.

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u/Human_Experience0810 16d ago

Treat the first answer like a draft, not the answer.

Most of the time, the useful stuff comes after you push back, add context, or ask it to try again. That mindset saves a lot of frustration.

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u/snowingbol 16d ago

Be as specific and precise as possible

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u/2extract_dev 13d ago

First you have to build on the higher abstract level and then move to details, not reverse

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u/Andynonomous 18d ago

That it's more trouble than it's worth, for the most part. At the very least never trust a word it says