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Open a New Chat

"This is it? Really? It should be so much better!"

If you're like me, you've had that thought more than a few times working on a complex chat or trying to build a workflow. We're surrounded by AI success stories, and the more curious we are, the more we read, and the more we keep running into the same promise — that this AI stuff is the ultimate unlock.

Then we go back to our own chatbots, try to implement something that makes sense, produce nothing meaningful, and start to wonder if we're the problem.

Here's the mantra I keep coming back to:

Open a New Chat.

"This shouldn't be happening!!" Open a new chat. "That worked perfectly - how do I get that every time?!" Open a new chat. "No clue where to go from here." Open a new chat.

One of the most useful things Generative AI does is help you get better at using Generative AI. Start that new chat, explain what you were doing, paste the response you got, lay out why it really isn't working (or why it is), and ask how you might refine your process, your phrasing, or your thinking to improve the next attempt.

And when that gives you back something interesting that you're not quite sure what to do with? You already know.

Open a new chat.

And look, here's the thing: this seems obvious written down. But it wasn't obvious to me. I arrived at it the slow way, through a lot of hard experimentation, long after I "should" have. If that's where you are too, consider this the clue I wish someone had handed me.

Open a New Chat.

Any poetry fans out there? Let me tweak a great line to fit:

Let the chat happen to you.

Beauty and terror.

Just keep going.

No chat is final.

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