Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark offers real insight into how to think better with AI.

In a recent interview with Ezra Klein, he describes his first pass at prompting Claude to build a game: he explained his needs, outlined his goals, offered some context … and didn’t get what he wanted.

His next move is really smart — and is something we should all cultivate as a habit whenever our first attempt to frame and provide context falls short:

What I then did is I said to Claude: Hey, I’m going to write some software of Claude Code. I want you to interview me about this software I want to build and turn that into a specification document that I can give Claude Code. That time it worked really, really well because I’d structured the project to be specific and detailed enough that the system could work with it.

Intuiting the level of specificity needed is becoming a foundational critical thinking skill for AI users.