June 18, 2026
•2 min read
Groundhog Day!
By Aaron Seelye
Quick tip to make your sessions with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini better: quit treating those sessions like human-human conversations.
It’s easy when you’re in a session with ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to treat that like a human conversation. If it gives you an answer that you realize lacked a certain piece of information or a key bit of context, rather than adding that in as the next portion of the session, go back and edit that previous prompt to include the necessary context, information or whatever key bit, key tidbit that you needed the AI to respond to. Instead, take a look at your previous prompt, select it if on mobile, or mouse-over if on a computer, hit the pencil, and edit/resubmit that previous prompt.
The AI will look at your edited prompt with a fresh set of eyes. It’s important to remember that without some scaffolding in place, AI doesn’t retain a memory. Every conversation you have had with it, even the long-running ones, every single time that you respond back to it, it takes that whole conversation into account, not just the one little thing you said. Great, if you’re having a very linear path of the session, horrible if you’re wandering around, figuratively speaking.
People constantly attach human emotions and other attributes to AI’s. Stop thinking of them as another form of human intelligence, start thinking of it as a completely new Alternative Intelligence, with certain attributes being stronger, some weaker, or even non-existent.
