Take your AI to school.

To have the AI be really useful, and not be everyone's AI, you've got to teach it.

Mould it to your context. Your life, your experience, your interests, your priorities. You've got to put the AI through the program.

We always joke about having kids and putting them through the Star Wars program, or the Marvel program. Teaching them about pop culture, movies, shows, ideas, philosophies. I've had to do that with AI. I've had to put it through my program.

Because out of the box, it knows a lot about everything and nothing about you. It doesn't know why you'd make one decision over another. It doesn't know what you think looks good, or why.

I remember the night I spent four, five, six hours talking to the AI as I was making a document. Walking it through my thought process. Why I would make certain decisions. The kind of stuff I would do.

In doing that, for the first time, I was really confronted with my design doctrine. My core ideas about why I think certain things look good and others look bad, and what the difference is. I had to put that into words, and stop it being this nebulous thing in my brain.

So teaching the AI made me clearer about my own work.

Working agentically has helped me bring out a lot of what was implicit, make it explicit, and hand it over to an intelligence that can execute against it. It really felt like hiring people, or teaching kids, honestly.

And once it knows how you think, you can hand it more without dropping your standards. If you have good ideas, the possibilities become really interesting.

You teach the AI about you. Then you use it to build things beyond you.