Good luck with your family matters and with this case, Bill.
Your moral compass seems to be spot on in every situation I’ve been able to follow here on X.
“My only advice for him would be to learn more about your oponent before launching your first move”
These words resonated. I hope you win this thoroughly so that more good people can take inspiration to become that type of “opponent”.
I also hope your win disincentives others (including law firms) from pursuing similar cases with no merit.
Like you said, some people are truly discriminated against - they deserve better than game-theory-optimized settlement plays undermining them.
MIT researchers just proved that prompt engineering is a social skill, not a technical one.
and that revelation breaks everything we thought we knew about working with AI.
they analyzed 667 people solving problems with AI. used bayesian statistics to isolate two different abilities in each person. ability to solve problems alone. ability to solve problems with AI.
here's what shattered the entire framework.
the two abilities barely correlate.
being a genius problem-solver on your own tells you almost nothing about how well you'll collaborate with AI. they're separate, measurable, independently functioning skills.
which means every prompt engineering course, every mega-prompt template, every "10 hacks to get better results" thread is fundamentally misunderstanding what's actually happening when you get good results.
the templates work. but not for the reason everyone thinks.
they work because they accidentally force you to practice something else entirely.
the skill that actually predicts success with AI isn't about keywords or structure or chain-of-thought formatting.
it's theory of mind. your capacity to model what another agent knows, doesn't know, believes, needs. to anticipate their confusion before it happens. to bridge information gaps you didn't even realize existed.
and here's the part that changes the game completely: they proved it's not a static trait you either have or don't.
it's dynamic. activated. something you turn on and off.
moment-to-moment changes in how much cognitive effort you put into perspective-taking directly changed AI response quality on individual prompts.
meaning when you actually stop and think "what does this AI need to know that i'm taking for granted" on one specific question, you get measurably better answers on that question.
the skill is something you dial up and down. practice. strengthen. like a muscle you didn't know you had.
it gets better the more you treat AI like a collaborator with incomplete information instead of a search engine you're trying to hack with the right magic words.