Understanding AI

Douglas Pereira

It is a tool, not a teammate

• It does not know your product
• It does not feel the deadline
• You still own the diff

Use it for the middle

• First drafts, not final calls
• Boilerplate, not architecture
• Exploration, then you decide

The skill is the question

• Bad prompts are vague tickets
• Show the constraint, the file, the failure
• If you cannot describe the outcome, you are not ready to generate it

Keep taste

• Fast output is not good output
• Read everything before you merge
• The model will happily invent an API that does not exist