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What’s the biggest thing I learned at the General AI conference on day one? #aievents #ai

13 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief recap from Generative AI Day 2, the speaker highlights the most important lesson from Day 1: repeatedly prompting an AI manually degrades the retained context, leading to poorer results. Instead, the speaker advises that users should first provide clear context and then ask the AI to generate or refine the next prompt. By letting the AI craft follow‑on prompts based on the supplied context, the interaction remains coherent and more effective. This advice is presented as the single biggest takeaway from the conference’s first day.

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Heading over to the conference, Generative AI Day 2, and here are some takeaways from yesterday. One is that if you prompt and then you prompt again and then you prompt again, if you do it yourself, you are actually going to get less and less context moving down the line. So, follow-on prompting can be a bit of a problem. But if you ask the AI to create a prompt for you, it's going to do much better down the line. And so you've heard me say this before and teach it before, but you need to make sure that you create a prompt, you provide context, and then you ask the AI to look at that context, look at that prompt, and help you create a better prompt. That's the biggest takeaway from day one.