How we guide AI not with buttons, but with words and context.
When you use an AI like ChatGPT, there are no menus or toolbars. Instead, the way you interact – what you say, how you say it, and what you show it – is the interface.
That’s what we mean by context. It’s the information you give the AI to help it understand what you want. A vague prompt gives you a vague answer. A clear prompt, with the right background, gets you something much more useful.
This new kind of interface has several parts:
- Prompt window – where you ask questions and give tasks
- Custom instructions – where you shape the AI’s behaviour
- File uploads – where you provide background material
- Project spaces – where you store persistent context for a task
- Canvas – where you co-develop ideas with the AI
You don’t click buttons. You build context. And the better the context, the better the outcome.
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This post was written by Alec with support from ChatGPT. Alec directed the concept, structure, and final wording. ChatGPT contributed phrasings and refinements, which were reviewed and approved by Alec.