AI finished the draft before the coffee was ready. Nice. Now for the part called “one quick check” that somehow involves 12 browser tabs and lunch at 3.
3. Sometimes I ask for a rough first pass, then have it fix the weak spots.
4. I set a hard limit, like “80 words max.”
5. I ask it to argue both sides before summarising.
A few AI habits I’ve been using lately:
1.I keep two chats open: one helps me draft, the other roasts the draft. Then I revise.
2.I ask for three different approaches before picking one.
6. If a prompt doesn’t work, I ask it to rewrite the prompt based on what happened.
7. Sometimes I leave out my own opinion at first, so I can see what it notices without my framing.
Working on AI in the Bay Area has given me a new definition of “fast”: the answer arrives before my coffee cools, and then I spend the morning figuring out whether to trust it. Faster isn’t the same as done.
In China, a bank counter tells you where you bought something, not what you bought.
A deposit and a wealth management product can sit in the same branch but carry different risks.
Before signing: Who issued it? Can you lose principal? When can you withdraw?
The best part of a China haul is someone buying a $3 kitchen gadget as a joke, then becoming its unpaid spokesperson.
Three days later they're explaining the drainage holes to their friends.
That's not shopping anymore. That's a tiny appliance with a PR team.