My AI used to bring me questions like a waiter with no specials: here are three options, which do you want? Fair enough. Except half the time I didn't know enough to choose, and it knew more about the problem than I did.
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What I ask for now:
One question at a time, never a list.
Your pick first, and the reason in one line.
If running something would answer it, run it instead of asking me.
My yes takes two seconds. My no takes ten. Both beat a menu.
What's the special?
So I changed the deal. When it asks me something, it leads with what it would pick and why, in a sentence. Then I say yes, or I say no and tell it what I want instead. "No" is a perfectly good answer, and it doesn't hurt its feelings.
The other half of the deal: anything it can find out by checking, it checks, and doesn't ask me. I only get the questions that really are mine, the taste calls. Which thumbnail. Whether a joke lands. What I want the thing to be.