Make No Mistakes

I’m taking a Danish exam next week, and it’s a big one, a culmination of years learning the language. My classmates are stressed. Despite how much we’ve learned, it feels like we’re always making little mistakes. We write the wrong prepositions, put verbs in the wrong form, or mess up the order of words in a sentence. And while we should have time to check our work, that doesn’t help as much as it should. If we don’t notice a mistake the first time around, what guarantee is there that we notice it on the next read, or the next? Too many checks and we can even end up second-guessing ourselves, “correcting” something that was right to begin with. It’s given me some sympathy for AI. Earlier this month, investor Marc Andreessen posted a custom prompt he inputs when using AI, which was immediately mocked. Current AI custom prompt:You are a world class expert in all domains. Your intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the…