Book by Lee Felican Jr.
Stop Being Nice to AI
Prompting is a skill, and politeness is not part of it.
What it is about
People get poor results from AI for a consistent and unexpected reason: they are too polite. Hedged, apologetic, vague requests produce hedged, vague answers, and the user concludes the tool is weak.
Stop Being Nice to AI is about being direct. Specific instructions, stated constraints, explicit output formats, and a willingness to reject a first answer and demand a better one. It is a practical method rather than a list of prompt tricks that stop working when the models change.
Read it if
- You use AI daily and suspect you are getting less out of it than you should.
- Your prompts produce generic answers that need heavy editing.
- You want a method that survives the next model release.
- You are training a team and need something you can hand them.
About the author
Lee Felican Jr. is founder of felican ai and director of artificial intelligence at resolution economics at Felican AI, where he builds and deploys the AI systems these books describe. More about the team.
