Personalizing AI: Make It Work Like You Do
Why AI answers feel generic, and the four levers — instructions, context, memory, and examples — that make an assistant work the way you do. With a method for checking that it actually helped.
Testing whether personalization actually helped
“It feels better” is not evidence You spent an hour on a profile, a project, and a voice sample set. Did the answers improve? Almost nobody checks, and the reason is that checking sounds like it needs a methodology. It needs about fifteen minutes. Build a tiny personal eval set Write down five tasks you […]
The limits: privacy, drift, and being agreed with
Personalization has two failure modes and one hard boundary The boundary: what you hand over Every lever works by putting information somewhere a system will read it later. That makes “what should I share?” a real question rather than a paranoid one. The principle to borrow is data minimisation, set out in Article 5 of […]