A couple words about prompting and why lawyers should push through their reluctance to spend time picking up the prompting skills needed to get useful outputs:

Dear friend,

I hear you. You question whether it’s worth your time. You’re a busy person. I get it. I want to help you, not add to your burden.

Prompting is the key to interacting with much of today’s AI, but it’s more than that. In fact, it’s a highly transferrable skill. Effective prompting is about honing your ability to communicate with precision and clarity. It calls on skills that can enhance your capacity to articulate complex ideas and instructions in simple terms. Oh…and the feedback loop is instant! Unlike your students, associates or assistants, you’ll know immediately if the AI understood the assignment and have plenty of time to adjust your guidance.

Upskilling at AI prompting can improve your problem-solving approach. Seriously. Because effective prompting encourages structured thinking, you might find yourself asking more targeted questions and extracting information more efficiently in various situations.

There’s more, but I’ve prompted you enough for today. 😉

While you’re here, poke around this blog and site, and you’ll see why I talk about these things, what I think, what I do to help. You might also be curious about LawQi.