How to use it · the one habit

Just keep asking it

The lads who get the most out of it aren't doing anything clever. They just keep talking to it, the way you'd keep a junior right. Three habits do most of the work.

1. Point it at the source

"Check the tracker", "read the thread from the engineer", "open the file at that path" beats "you know that thing?". Tell it where to look and it stops guessing.

2. Say what "done" looks like

"A table of X", "a one-pager", "a draft reply saying Y". Shape the output and you get it right first time instead of a wall of text you have to wrangle.

3. Keep going

The first answer is a starting point, not the end. "Now do the same for the electrical pages." "Shorter." "Add the dates." "That's wrong, it's actually Tuesday." It remembers the thread, so each follow-up sharpens the last. Most of the value is in the second, third and fourth ask.

And hold it honest. Every report it gives ends with what it did, what it covered, and what it might have missed. Read that last line, that's where the gaps live. It's allowed to tell you it couldn't do something, or that your idea won't work. That's a feature, not a fault.

That's the whole trick. Treat it like a sharp junior who needs a clear brief and a bit of back-and-forth, and it'll carry a surprising amount of your week.