Ask better questions to get better answers
Popular saying, in my words
The quality of an answer is capped by the quality of the question. This is truer than ever when you are asking an AI.
“Why is the app slow?” gets you guesses. “Why does the first paint take four seconds on a cold start on mid-range Android?” gets you an investigation. The second question already contains half the answer: what, where, when, for whom.
A better question narrows the search space. It states what you already know, what you have ruled out and what a useful answer would look like.
This matters more than ever now that so much of our thinking goes through AI models. A model answers the question you asked, not the one you meant. Context, constraints and the shape of the expected answer are the difference between a generic paragraph and a solution you can ship.
Try this
Before you ask a colleague, a client or a model your next question, rewrite it once with three additions: the context, what you have already tried, and what a good answer would let you do.