Your AI Feels Like an Intern? Try the GCO Framework
This is Day 10 of the AI Path L1→L2 Upgrade Guide. You should complete Day 8 and Day 9 first. I learned this the hard way. “I thought I was clear” is a lie I have told myself more often than I care to admit when prompting AI. I once asked an AI to organize project documents: “Help me sort these files.” What I got back: all .md and .py files mixed together, sorted alphabetically by filename. It did sort them. Just not the way I meant. Another time I said: “Show me the directory structure.” I wanted a tree view. The AI gave me ls -lh output: file sizes, timestamps, permissions. Everything I didn’t ask for. Same request, two completely different results. The gap wasn’t in the tool. It was in how I described what I wanted. A fuzzy description and a clear one can mean the difference between three iterations and zero. Here are three exercises from everyday scenarios. Each starts with a vague version, breaks down what’s missing, and builds up to a clear version. If you read these and think “wait, I write prompts like the vague version too,” that is exactly why this article exists. ...