“Normally when I want to yell at AI, it's because I have given it poor instruction… when you get a bad result, the odds that you have poisoned the context and asked a bad question is pretty high… the context is poison in that conversation. It's unrecoverable and yelling at it is not going to help. So start a new one, move on with your life, which is not satisfying.”
How I AI · AI Builders · November 2026
Context
Claire Vo asked in the lightning round whether he yells at his AI when it won't cooperate. His practical rule is to abandon a conversation once the context is poisoned rather than fight it.
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you know, there's like, there's some real like roadmap.
Yeah. No, I'm just expressive.
Yeah. I think I will say my take is that normally when I want to yell at AI, it's because I have given it poor instruction. This is how you know I have kids is like, there's so much of that, which is like when you get a bad result, the odds that you have like poisoned the context and asked a bad question is like pretty high. And so I will occasionally find myself in loops. Like codex has this codex, if you're listening, opening i team if you're listening has this really bad bug right now where if you start a local…
give you a TikTok parenting tip if you want to really devastate your AI by being a kind parent, which is, I know that you're capable, but you're not, you're not, you're not showing me how capable you are right now. And that's just signaling to me, I need to be a better parent.
My okay, I love that. That one, stealing the parenting tip, two, stealing it for AI. I feel like I really love to give my AIs like big expectations. And I feel like you saw it in the math proof, but like I have been doing a version of this, which is like, buddy, like, I know you can cook. Like, you…
I know you can vibe code Salesforce just a little bit more. Okay, Ezra, this has been so fun. So many good use cases. So many good thoughts. Where can we find you and how can we be helpful?
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