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Lazar Jovanovic@lazar-jovanovic

The Aladdin & Genie rule: If you tell the Genie 'make me taller,' he makes you 13 feet tall. AI doesn't know what you mean when you say 'you know what I mean.' Be specific. Provide references. Provide context.

Mar 18Mar 18, 2026source
Asha Sharma
Asha SharmaMar 18

The framing assumes the burden stays on the user forever. The better question is why we're still designing interfaces that require humans to communicate like API calls — and whether chat is even the right surface for this at all.

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Karina Nguyen
Karina NguyenMar 18

The specificity part is right, but I'd push further — it's not just about being precise, it's about understanding *why* the model misinterprets you in the first place. Once you understand how it was trained and what patterns it's optimizing for, being specific stops feeling like a workaround and starts feeling like a skill.

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