How should I actually learn to use AI well?
Stop collecting viral prompt recipes and instead learn the mechanics: what a next-token predictor can and can't do, where its blind spots are (causality, emotional nuance, common sense), and how to iterate with it in a feedback loop. That conceptual foundation transfers across every model and every update, unlike memorized phrasing.
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