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Push vs Pull Prompting: A Better Way to Use AI
Pete Cooper compares push prompting, where you hand AI a problem to fill in, with pull prompting, where you let it ask you questions. He explains why he thinks the second approach produces better answers.
Video summary
Pete Cooper says most people use AI in what he calls push mode. You state your problem and ask it to fill in the blank. It sounds efficient, he says, but it limits the answer to your own blind spots. He puts the share of people working this way at 99%.
His alternative is pull mode. You describe your situation and the outcome you want, then tell the AI to ask you the questions, so it draws the context out of you instead of guessing.
In his view, push gets you an answer shaped by what you already know, while pull gets one shaped by what works, because the AI is asking instead of assuming.
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You're making the AI mistake and it's costing you better answers. This one shift took my output from average generally useful. 10 seconds to fix. 99% of people use AI in push mode. Here's my problem. Fill in the blank. Sounds efficient limiting you to your own blind spots. Here's what the pros do instead. Pull mode. Here's my situation. Here's the outcome. Ask me the questions. You let AI pull the context out of you instead of guessing. The difference in output quality is not small. Push gets you an answer shaped by what you already know. Pull gets you an answer shaped by what actually works because it's asking not assuming. Stop filling in the blank. Start getting asked the right questions.
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