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How to stop AI making you stupid: hybrid destination-journey prompting

A local map-style illustration where a pinned "answer" destination is visible, but the route is overlaid with checkpoints labelled “confidence”, “sources”, “counter-arguments”, “verify”, “edit” (image generated by ChatGPT).

Last month I wrote about destination and journey prompts, and the strategy of designing AI prompts to avoid deskilling. In some situations a third, hybrid approach can also be useful. In this post I explain how such hybrid destination-journey prompting works in practice, and where it might be most appropriate.

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