I was reading Our First Accelerated Expertise Course from Commoncog, and the section Why This Training Approach is So Weird got me keen on seeing if I could get the genie to help me build experts for sensemaking, so I can learn to see the world as those experts do.

So far I’ve created one expert, and I’ve had a useful conversation (I realized I was not seeing the forest for the trees), so sharing what I have and leaving a crumb for the future. 🙂

I shared a prompt to help create “AI expert prompts” to help you learn a domain, and I’m realizing I didn’t mention the dangers. As every company that gives you a genie to talk to says “they can get things wrong.” The problem is that as a non-expert you don’t know what you don’t know, so you don’t know when the genie is so confidently wrong.

When I started a company I figured, why not do the books myself for the first couple of months and then pay someone to review it later? I created a genie armed with the standard Swedish accounting plan, verified some of the big things I did (inject some extra starting capital) and could find clear examples of how it’s done. I did some other things and just did as it said, but did get a bit complacent because the big one just worked, and didn’t research as thoroughly.