Lesson 6 of 7
Build your AI council
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You've found a favourite AI. Lovely. Now here's a habit that quietly makes you better than anyone using just one: don't marry it.
A cabinet, not a spouse
Think of your AIs as a small council of advisers, each with a strength. One writes beautifully, one is a sharp coder, one is a tireless researcher, one is fast and free for quick questions. You don't ask the whole room every time — you send each job to the member who's best at it.
No single model is best at everything (that was the whole first lesson). A council lets you take each one's best and skip its weak spots.
The routing habit
The habit is tiny: before you type, ask 'whose strength is this?' Coding to the coder, prose to the writer, a fresh-facts question to the searcher, a throwaway question to the fast free one. It takes a second and it compounds — you're always using something near its best instead of forcing one tool to do everything.
Routing beats loyalty. A one-second 'whose strength is this?' gets you a better answer than always defaulting to the same box.
A council of two is plenty to start — most people pair one strong all-rounder with one search-first tool. Add members only when you hit a job your current two are clearly bad at.
The shape of it
- —Keep a few AIs, each chosen for a strength — a council, not a single spouse.
- —Route each job to the member whose strength fits it best.
- —Start with two and add more only when a real gap shows up.
You've got a strong all-round writer AI and a separate search-first one. You need last night's football scores with sources. Where does it go?
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