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38 short entries on the ideas behind the lessons. The lessons stay quick; this is where the depth lives. Each entry says which lessons use it and where to read more.

AI for marketing

What the models do, how to check them, and where they belong in your work.

AI A prompt is a specificationRole, context, task and format, plus an example, fix most bland answers.
AI AI agentA model given tools, permission and a loop, so it can act.
AI Answer engine optimisation (AEO)Being the source an AI answer is built from, on top of ranking.
AI Baseline: time it before you change itYou cannot say it saved time unless you timed the old way.
AI Context windowEverything the model can see right now. Anything outside it does not exist for the model.
AI Grounding: give it the sourceReading a document you supplied is a safer job than recalling one.
AI Hallucination (making things up)Plausible, confident and wrong, most often in specific details.
AI Human in the loopWhere the person sits decides whether the review is real.
AI Large language model (LLM)A system trained to predict the next word. Everything it does follows from that.
AI Offloading and tasteHand over what you have mastered. Keep doing what you are still learning.
AI PilotA real test with a baseline, a sample and a decision rule written first.
AI Prompt injectionText from outside that tries to give your AI instructions.
AI Research in the customer’s own wordsBring real customer material and ask for verbatim phrases.
AI Review theatreAn approve button pressed eighty times without looking.
AI Sampling and why answers differThe model draws its words from a probability spread, so one good answer is one draw.
AI Shadow modeRun the automation silently next to your own work and compare.
AI SycophancyThe tendency to agree with you, even when it was right the first time.
AI Test setTen real inputs with known answers, run every time you change anything.
AI The cost of checkingSort every task by how expensive it is to verify the answer.
AI Training cutoffThe date after which the model has read nothing, and the topics it has read least about.
AI What not to pasteTreat the chat box like an email to a stranger.
AI Where AI belongs in your weekDelegate, collaborate, do it yourself, do not touch.
AI Workflow or agent?A fixed path you designed, or a system that chooses its own steps.

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