Nice work. Can you walk us through your second argument?
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Persuasive speech · Nolan Prayagsing
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Harvard × BCG · 758 consultants
When AI is out of its depth, blind trust costs you.
84%
got it right without AI
60–70%
got it right when they relied on AI
Inside its zone12.2% more tasks · 25% faster · 32% better quality. The tool works. Blind trust doesn't.
Dell'Acqua, Mollick et al. (2026). Navigating the jagged technological frontier. Organization Science2 / 4
How I do it
Three steps. The prompt comes last.
01
Understand
the context and the goal of what you're asked to do.
02
Try
it yourself first, to learn the method.
03
Prompt
with your context. Then check what it gives you.
+34%
for beginners, +14% on average: 5,179 support agents working with an AI assistant. Brynjolfsson, Li & Raymond (2023), Stanford × MIT, NBER Working Paper 31161
Nolan Prayagsing · Persuasive Communication3 / 4
This week
Your next assignment before you open ChatGPT
Give it context.
Write two lines: the context and the goal
Work on it alone for 15 minutes
Send one real prompt with that context
Compare the result
AI is not a tool. It's an assistant, and it needs your context.