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FridAI: Prompt Failure + Micromanaging AI · Business Brain – The Entrepreneurs’ Podcast

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  Dave Hamilton: Business Brain, episode 751 for Casual Friday. I May 8th, Reward Yourself Day, 2026.
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  Dave Hamilton: Welcome back. I'm back.
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  Shannon Jean: It's Business Brain. What day is it? Reward Yourself?
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  Dave Hamilton: Reward Yourself Day. I love that. That's good.
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  Shannon Jean: Big fan of rewards.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah, it's part of the charm life, man.
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  Shannon Jean: Right? I've been hunting, you know, dealers looking for dopamine to keep myself moving forward.
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  Dave Hamilton: That's it, man. Let's go.
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  Shannon Jean: It's a good thing I don't have drumsticks. You'd be hearing them.
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  Dave Hamilton: I have a lot of drumsticks.
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  Shannon Jean: I know you do. You have constraint.
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  Dave Hamilton: Some may disagree with that statement, but some bandmates specifically.
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  Dave Hamilton: Greetings and welcome to Business Brain, the show where we take some ideas,
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  Dave Hamilton: we crunch them, we dissect them, we use them to keep on living our charmed lives.
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  Dave Hamilton: we'll talk more about those in a little bit for now here in durham new hampshire i'm dave hamilton and.
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  Shannon Jean: I'm shannon jean i'm in northern california and i'm glad to be here for friday
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  Dave Hamilton: I i am too i was thinking about i i had
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  Dave Hamilton: uh a period you mentioned drumsticks and they're
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  Dave Hamilton: a very personal thing for drummers as you might
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  Dave Hamilton: imagine i mean you know like different sticks different length
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  Dave Hamilton: different weight different balance to the stick different
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  Dave Hamilton: texture to the stick a different uh shape
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  Dave Hamilton: of the bead which is like the part of the stick that would typically hit
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  Dave Hamilton: like the drum or the cymbal everything's you know it
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  Dave Hamilton: all matters and uh i used a
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  Dave Hamilton: company for a long time and then they went out of business thankfully the drumstick industry is
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  Dave Hamilton: has all of about 17 people in it uh grand total
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  Dave Hamilton: and so i was able to find where like the knives and the blades went for those
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  Dave Hamilton: specific sticks oh and um for a small period for a short period of time i had
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  Dave Hamilton: somebody else uh somebody like in their garage locally here making me their
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  Dave Hamilton: drumsticks they had the right lathe and the right knives and because they were
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  Dave Hamilton: custom for me he was like what do you want me to put on them.
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  Dave Hamilton: And, and, and so I had one of my favorite quotes, uh, that, uh,
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  Dave Hamilton: that came from one musician to another.
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  Dave Hamilton: I was not involved in this conversation. It was from a bass player named Jaco
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  Dave Hamilton: Pistorius to a drummer named Peter Erskine.
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  Dave Hamilton: When, uh, when Peter joined weather report, which was like this seminal fusion
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  Dave Hamilton: band back in the seventies and eighties.
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  Dave Hamilton: And Peter was petrified because he was playing with these heavy hitters,
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  Dave Hamilton: this like difficult music, big spotlight.
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  Dave Hamilton: And Jocko said to him, he's like, hey man, don't think so much.
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  Dave Hamilton: Just concentrate. You're going to be fine.
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  Dave Hamilton: And that idea of don't think, just concentrate, I feel like there's good advice there.
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  Dave Hamilton: It was good advice as I sat down to the drums every time to have this.
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  Dave Hamilton: I had it imprinted in cursive on them or whatever, but don't think, just concentrate.
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  Dave Hamilton: That's cool. I think it's good advice.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah, I did too.
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  Dave Hamilton: For Friday, I hear we have a note from Jeffrey.
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  Dave Hamilton: We talked recently and Jeffrey wrote in,
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  Dave Hamilton: We had talked recently about Whisperflow. He says, I was listening to that episode
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  Dave Hamilton: and it's absolutely transformed the way I work.
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  Dave Hamilton: I certainly dictate all my emails now, and more importantly,
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  Dave Hamilton: is I now actually do all the documentation I'm supposed to do along the way,
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  Dave Hamilton: and I've saved so much time.
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  Dave Hamilton: Besides the fact that I'm a terrible typist, he says, but other than that,
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  Dave Hamilton: Whatever it is you're speaking, no matter how loud or how soft,
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  Dave Hamilton: that part is actually true.
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  Dave Hamilton: He says, I've used other ones like Dragon and et cetera over the years.
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  Dave Hamilton: He says, I've even used my phone to dictate into an email and then mail it to
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  Dave Hamilton: myself to paste it into Word or whatever.
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  Dave Hamilton: He said but whisper flow has absolutely transformed the way i work he says you
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  Dave Hamilton: definitely won't regret the paid version for sure worth every penny well thanks
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  Dave Hamilton: for that jeff that's great.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah it's huge and also has the ability
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  Shannon Jean: to do corrections while you talk so if i say if i'm speaking and i'm like i
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  Shannon Jean: don't know i don't want to say that change you to this it'll just do it so it
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  Shannon Jean: doesn't do verbatim It's listening to you and it can make smart changes while you speak,
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  Shannon Jean: which is, I use that feature all the time.
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  Shannon Jean: I'd be like, no, no, let's, let's say it this way. And then it'll come out that way.
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  Shannon Jean: And another feature I like about it is if I forget to like click into a field.
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  Shannon Jean: So if you don't, if you haven't used WhisperSync, if you, you can set a,
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  Shannon Jean: a keyboard stroke, I have my, I use a control button.
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  Shannon Jean: Sure. Hold that down. any field you talk in, any text box, any Word document,
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  Shannon Jean: email, whatever, it'll transcribe it. And it's like,
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  Shannon Jean: I mean, it's really almost perfect. So if you forget to click in somewhere to
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  Shannon Jean: record and you think, and you record it, it'll pop up and say,
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  Shannon Jean: Hey, click into a field and paste. It's here.
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  Shannon Jean: I saved this for you. I got it, which is awesome.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah.
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  Shannon Jean: Which is really, really great.
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  Dave Hamilton: That is really great. Oh, that's really interesting. Huh? Yeah.
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  Dave Hamilton: I need to mess with it more. It just, all of this makes it so clear that interfaces of the future are,
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  Dave Hamilton: will not be what we have now
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  Dave Hamilton: like i i think yeah i think the most basic
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  Dave Hamilton: way to look at future interfaces is what we have with our our chatbots now with
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  Dave Hamilton: with generative air like you know chat gpt or clodder you know whatever you
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  Dave Hamilton: type into i think imagine if you will going to say jetblue.com you wouldn't
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  Dave Hamilton: go to spirit airlines.com because you can't book a flight there not anymore yeah Well.
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  Shannon Jean: Too bad JetBlue didn't own them.
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  Dave Hamilton: That's another story. That's a whole other story. That's right.
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  Dave Hamilton: But let's say you want to book a flight, right? And imagine going to JetBlue.com
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  Dave Hamilton: and just starting to type and just say, hey, I want to book a flight.
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  Dave Hamilton: I need to go here. Here's what I'm doing.
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  Dave Hamilton: And it remembers your last conversation that you had with it.
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  Dave Hamilton: So it's got some context. And it's like, okay, great, Dave, great.
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  Dave Hamilton: The last time you went to Austin, you brought your wife with you.
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  Dave Hamilton: Are you bringing her again this time? Yes.
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  Dave Hamilton: Okay, great. That's exactly right. Right? And now it's like,
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  Dave Hamilton: all right, well, I know that you like to fly, you know, like you prefer non-stops,
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  Dave Hamilton: like all of those things.
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  Shannon Jean: You like an aisle seat. You like this. You like that.
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  Dave Hamilton: It becomes the travel agent we used to talk to 100 years ago.
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  Dave Hamilton: Now you're just typing at it. And let's say you get to a point where you're stuck.
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  Dave Hamilton: The web interface or this chat interface can't get you what you need.
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  Dave Hamilton: I mean, it's going to happen.
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  Dave Hamilton: Happens already now. And then you have to call or at least, you know, text with like a human.
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  Dave Hamilton: Well, now that right in today's world, that human, you have to tell them everything
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  Dave Hamilton: that you've been through up till that point, because they don't.
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  Dave Hamilton: I mean, they do keep track of how you use the website, but it's not passed along to support.
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  Dave Hamilton: If it's going, if it's happening in a chat interface and you're like,
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  Dave Hamilton: all right, I can't talk to the robot anymore. I have to. I need a human. It's like, OK, got you.
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  Dave Hamilton: And then it can summarize for the human what you've spent the last 20 minutes doing.
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  Dave Hamilton: And what they need help with. And I really think that is the most basic of ways
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  Dave Hamilton: we will interact with services in the future. I mean, I think it's all going to be voice.
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  Dave Hamilton: And you're going to have profiles about yourself that you choose to share at
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  Dave Hamilton: different times and connectors and all that stuff.
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  Dave Hamilton: I think web design goes away or changes.
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  Shannon Jean: It is really going to be interesting. And I do like your comment about web design.
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  Shannon Jean: It will be far more personalized.
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  Shannon Jean: Every site you go to, it will be different than somebody else.
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  Shannon Jean: Yep. Right. Because the way you use it and the, you know, the feedback you're giving it. Yeah.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. It's incredible. It's incredible. Yep. The only thing,
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  Dave Hamilton: and I might be saying this as someone who knows,
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  Dave Hamilton: is the cost of the AI tokens on the backend to support all of that.
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  Dave Hamilton: Because if you're not careful, it could cost you millions of dollars a month
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  Dave Hamilton: if you have a fairly popular website.
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  Shannon Jean: It makes sense.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. You have to be efficient about it.
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  Dave Hamilton: And I think that is where it used to be web design built for a user interface
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  Dave Hamilton: that was smooth and easy to use. Well, now we know what that interface is.
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  Dave Hamilton: So that's done. But now you've got to be able to program in a way that maximizes
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  Dave Hamilton: your use of ai tokens but that's just i mean it's fine that's like how things
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  Dave Hamilton: yeah how things work that's true speaking.
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  Shannon Jean: Of that so that's like the very sophisticated side of
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  Dave Hamilton: i want to hear this conversation i want to be able to give it the time i want
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  Dave Hamilton: All right, Shannon, now what do you got for me?
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  Shannon Jean: Now I got, yeah. So I was with some folks this weekend that don't use AI that much.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yep.
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  Shannon Jean: And I was watching them interface with ChatGPT and it got me thinking about
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  Shannon Jean: prompts because it's kind of second nature how we've structured all these very
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  Shannon Jean: sophisticated prompts or really give lots of, I wouldn't say sophisticated,
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  Shannon Jean: but detailed, lots of detailed prompt information.
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  Shannon Jean: So I thought it would be worth revisiting
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  Shannon Jean: the top five mistakes that people typically make when they're trying to get
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  Shannon Jean: a certain result from AI and they make these mistakes with their prompts.
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  Dave Hamilton: Okay, yep.
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  Shannon Jean: The first one is not assigning a role. That's like, there's no act as,
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  Dave Hamilton: Okay?
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  Shannon Jean: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. If you just say, hey, write me a sales email,
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  Shannon Jean: this, that, and the other, that your AI is just going to be,
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  Shannon Jean: okay, it's generic, average, whatever, you know, AI gobbledygook internet voice.
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  Shannon Jean: So you really need to have an act as, act as a senior sales associate
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  Shannon Jean: who closes six-figure deals through connection and warmth, not pressure,
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  Shannon Jean: don't make it too salesy, but you're informing the AI to use a specific style,
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  Dave Hamilton: Right? Yep.
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  Shannon Jean: Vocabulary, even judgment when you're telling it, hey, don't pressure,
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  Shannon Jean: all that kind of stuff. So that's number one, you need to assign it a role.
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  Shannon Jean: And these are my notes after I was talking to these guys this weekend,
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  Shannon Jean: trying to tell them, people using it too much like Google, too much keyword
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  Shannon Jean: driven, different things like that. You have to change it.
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  Shannon Jean: And the second one is no context, right?
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  Shannon Jean: You're the AI doesn't know who you are.
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  Dave Hamilton: No, it's dumb.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah. So you need to tell it. Oh, I run a, you know, I've got five people on my team.
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  Shannon Jean: I'm a sales creator.
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  Shannon Jean: Here's who my clients are. Clients are small business owners at doing one to 5 million a year.
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  Shannon Jean: We tried Google ads. They didn't work. Help me think of other channels.
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  Shannon Jean: So you're, you're giving them, you don't want generic answers.
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  Shannon Jean: You need to give it very specific.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. Very specific. This goes back to one of the first things that I learned
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  Dave Hamilton: using computers, which is the whole concept of garbage in, garbage out. And it's the same thing.
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  Dave Hamilton: Specificity in, specificity out. Where there's a problem, and we actually had
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  Dave Hamilton: this issue, which was solved right before.
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  Dave Hamilton: Thankfully, it all worked out. but um we
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  Dave Hamilton: uh were helping write some using ai to help write some scripts for uh our podcasters
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  Dave Hamilton: ads a specific sponsor needed they needed to run like what the podcaster was
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  Dave Hamilton: going to say through their legal department was a whole thing and uh.
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  Dave Hamilton: And we used AI, of course, to write the scripts. And for some of them,
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  Dave Hamilton: we did not vet what we got out of it.
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  Dave Hamilton: We just put them in as like, oh, this is it.
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  Dave Hamilton: It's like, oh, no, no, we didn't put enough. They don't like they don't know these.
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  Dave Hamilton: The AI doesn't know like me. I wasn't one of the shows. But like, sure.
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  Dave Hamilton: You know, when I do it, when I write scripts, like when I have it write scripts
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  Dave Hamilton: for our ads, which I do, you know, just to kind of ensure that I'm changing it up.
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  Dave Hamilton: All the time keeping it interesting for me and all that stuff
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  Dave Hamilton: and putting little easter eggs in them for all of you uh i
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  Dave Hamilton: sometimes it'll say oh you know i use this
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  Dave Hamilton: product to do this it's like but i i did not use
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  Dave Hamilton: this product to do this yeah like i'm not going to say that that's right and
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  Dave Hamilton: you know it's one thing when i'm reading it off the cuff and it's like i can
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  Dave Hamilton: just like navigate around it it's another thing when you print it and send it
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  Dave Hamilton: to legal yeah yeah exactly exactly And that's a good cut. Yep.
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  Shannon Jean: And it's another, you know, failure is not telling your AI the output format.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yes.
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  Shannon Jean: What, you know, it's one thing to say, oh, give me ideas for a podcast episode about X.
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  Shannon Jean: Well, you're just going to get a bunch of text, but you want to say,
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  Shannon Jean: look, give me five episode ideas.
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  Shannon Jean: Give me a working title. Give me a one sentence hook.
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  Shannon Jean: And who the target listener is. As well as, you know, how do you want to format
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  Shannon Jean: it? Do you want a list? Do you want visuals?
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  Shannon Jean: I mean, you really have to tell it exactly the output that you want to get.
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  Shannon Jean: Really important. Save yourself a ton of time too,
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  Dave Hamilton: Right? Yeah, it's going to save you a ton of time. And yeah,
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  Dave Hamilton: yeah. But you got to vet what you get out of it too.
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  Dave Hamilton: You can't just look at it blindly. Absolutely. Like both of these things are true.
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  Dave Hamilton: Yeah. Be careful what you're putting in and be careful what's coming out of
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  Dave Hamilton: it. And I I'm I'm probably one of the worst offenders at the last bit of it,
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  Dave Hamilton: you know, because if I have a creating something for me.
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  Dave Hamilton: I am doing it because I want to save time and attention.
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  Dave Hamilton: And now it's like, oh, you're telling me I have to like, like look at this work before I ship it.
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  Dave Hamilton: I have to read it. And sometimes I don't, but I get myself into trouble when
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  Dave Hamilton: I don't like it's, I totally get it.
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  Dave Hamilton: But, you know, it's like, it's not there. It's crazy.
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  Dave Hamilton: It's not like, it's not like a human that over time I can, you know,
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  Dave Hamilton: I can delegate to them. And then over time, just trust like,
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  Dave Hamilton: OK, you know, show me the first couple of times you send something out. OK, great.
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  Dave Hamilton: After this, ask me if you have a question for sure. But I don't need to micromanage you.
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  Dave Hamilton: You know, if I have I always say if I have to micromanage somebody on the team,
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  Dave Hamilton: that's either my fault or their fault. And we need to fix it.
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  Dave Hamilton: And sometimes fixing it is we don't work well together. And other times,
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  Dave Hamilton: most of the time, it's just a new process.
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  Dave Hamilton: But with AI, you have to not only can you micromanage it, you have to.
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  Dave Hamilton: Micromanagement. You should.
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  Shannon Jean: That's right. And you need to give it constraints. If you don't give it constraints
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  Shannon Jean: like, oh, write a marketing blurb about our new service.
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  Shannon Jean: It's overdone. You have to tell it like, okay, under 1,300 characters,
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  Shannon Jean: no hashtags, no emojis, right? No em dash.
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  Shannon Jean: I mean, you need to give it, and you can use like a product like WhisperSync,
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  Shannon Jean: just dictate your prompt.
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  Shannon Jean: I mean, you can make that prompt a page long.
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  Shannon Jean: So telling your AI what not to include
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  Shannon Jean: And what not to do can be just as powerful as what to do.
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  Dave Hamilton: What to do. Oh, for sure.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah. You need to do it. And in Latin, good.
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  Dave Hamilton: I was going to say, and the nice part is you can work with it.
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  Dave Hamilton: Like if the output you get is not in the format you want.
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  Shannon Jean: Exactly.
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  Dave Hamilton: Tell it, do it differently. That's all. Yeah.
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  Shannon Jean: Yeah. That's it. And that's number five, one-shot thinking.
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  Shannon Jean: Meaning you're going to ask the question or tell it to do something,
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  Shannon Jean: and then it comes back. Well, maybe a year ago, it was tough to kind of keep
• 19:52
  Shannon Jean: it going. But now you can just be like, no, no, no, no, no.
• 19:54
  Shannon Jean: Change this, go back, that's close, but that's not exactly what I want.
• 19:58
  Shannon Jean: I want you to change this font or change this image.
• 20:01
  Shannon Jean: I want you to rewrite it in my voice or whatever.
• 20:04
  Shannon Jean: You have to keep massaging it, you know, and just the more...
• 20:11
  Shannon Jean: What's you know nuance that you give give to it yeah the more and the more i
• 20:15
  Shannon Jean: think that it's kind of weird to say but you should have very high expectations on the output in
• 20:21
  Dave Hamilton: That settle don't say in that you shouldn't settle yeah that that was don't.
• 20:25
  Shannon Jean: Settle yeah
• 20:25
  Dave Hamilton: Yeah it yeah just because it got it wrong the first time isn't the reason to
• 20:30
  Dave Hamilton: walk away like you can tell it nope change you're good yeah yeah yeah.
• 20:35
  Shannon Jean: That's the that's
• 20:36
  Dave Hamilton: The t part right when gpt it the t is the transformative part you get to transform
• 20:42
  Dave Hamilton: what it's giving you or what it has given you that's the whole point yeah.
• 20:46
  Shannon Jean: Yeah and think about like don't even
• 20:50
  Shannon Jean: think about them like prompt think about it's like okay well i have this new
• 20:52
  Shannon Jean: employee yeah they just it's day one they
• 20:56
  Shannon Jean: don't know the context about anything so what would
• 20:58
  Shannon Jean: i tell them if i wanted this specific output how
• 21:02
  Shannon Jean: would i explain this to them and what resources
• 21:05
  Shannon Jean: would i give them what data would i give them you know if if you have data that
• 21:10
  Shannon Jean: what you want included in whatever your ai is building for you give it to it
• 21:14
  Shannon Jean: yeah don't assume that it's just going to go out there and find the right data
• 21:18
  Shannon Jean: you're just asking the thing to hallucinate uh you want to give it the resources yeah yeah yeah
• 21:24
  Dave Hamilton: Exactly makes a big difference it really does yeah yeah,
• 21:29
  Dave Hamilton: But no, these are, these are, these are interesting conversations to have with people. I had.
• 21:36
  Shannon Jean: Yeah, because it's basic, but I think easy, easy to overlook.
• 21:40
  Dave Hamilton: I had a friend of mine who is a very, very smart person.
• 21:44
  Dave Hamilton: I won't, I won't necessarily. We've all used a thing that he has created.
• 21:49
  Dave Hamilton: Let me put it that way. Very specifically.
• 21:52
  Dave Hamilton: And, and with, he's a, a computer programmer. Like, so, you know,
• 21:56
  Dave Hamilton: he really knows what he's doing.
• 21:58
  Dave Hamilton: And we were we had a group chat
• 22:01
  Dave Hamilton: amongst a bunch of us and somebody was using ai for something
• 22:04
  Dave Hamilton: and it had you know produced something that
• 22:07
  Dave Hamilton: was not entirely correct and so we were you know tweaking it
• 22:09
  Dave Hamilton: to correct it and this one friend said i
• 22:13
  Dave Hamilton: don't need any help getting the wrong answer now i
• 22:16
  Dave Hamilton: knew he was being snarky and funny and all
• 22:19
  Dave Hamilton: of that and in the context of this group it
• 22:22
  Dave Hamilton: made perfect sense like it was like yep i
• 22:25
  Dave Hamilton: i see why he said that but i i
• 22:28
  Dave Hamilton: couldn't help myself my reply was you know i don't even
• 22:31
  Dave Hamilton: i don't need help getting the wrong answer either but i do benefit from help
• 22:35
  Dave Hamilton: getting started and ai is great at shortcutting yes when it gives me the wrong
• 22:41
  Dave Hamilton: answer i'm in edit mode i'm yes over the hump so yeah it makes a difference
• 22:47
  Dave Hamilton: yeah yeah yeah i i I agree.
• 22:49
  Shannon Jean: A hundred percent. Uh, if, you know, and if you have some tips and,
• 22:54
  Shannon Jean: you know, tricks that you want us to share here on Friday, I feedback at businessbrain.show.
• 22:59
  Shannon Jean: We would love to hear from you, but share the wealth and help each other get better.
• 23:04
  Dave Hamilton: We help each other get better. That's the way it works. Yeah. I love it.
• 23:08
  Dave Hamilton: Feedback at businessbrain.show and keep living that charm life. We'll see you next week.