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Count the questions it asked

Seed Notes

This one is mine, pulled from the draft of newsletter issue 2, so the wording is not yours. The idea is strong enough to keep.

Take one problem, any app annoyance from your daily life. Ask your favorite AI tool to design a solution. Then don’t judge the screens. Count two things instead:

How many questions did it ask you back before producing a design?
How many things did it silently assume, about the users, the platform, the business?

Prediction: the first number is zero, and the second is long. The gap between what it assumed and what it should have asked is the job. It is the “AI never asks why a lightbulb” point from the Approach page, turned into something a reader can try in five minutes.

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