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<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5"><br>
Hey Andrea,<br>
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<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5">Most people use <code>/grill-me</code> like fancy plan mode.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5">That is the mistake.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5">A good grilling session should make your implementation sharper before a coding agent writes anything. A bad one just fills the context window with vague answers, half-decisions, and questions you should have prototyped instead.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5">That's how you end up with a bloated plan, lost design decisions, and an agent that still has to guess.</p>
<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5">I broke down the 9 ways <code>/grill-me</code> and <code>/grill-with-docs</code> go sideways, and how to avoid them:</p>
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<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5">The short version:</p>
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<li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em">Don't try to answer high-fidelity UI questions in a grilling session. Prototype those, then come back.</li>
<li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em">Keep the scope small enough that you stay in the model's smart zone.</li>
<li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em">Stay active. You're steering a design conversation, not sitting for an interview.</li>
<li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em">Preserve the decisions you make. If the context is valuable, turn it into code or a PRD before you clear it.</li>
<li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em">Use your strongest model for grilling. The point is better questions, not cheaper tokens.</li>
<li style="padding:0 0 0 1em;margin:0;margin-left:1em">Once you're comfortable, run two grilling sessions in parallel and bounce between them.</li>
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<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5">That's the difference between using AI to make a pile of guesses and using AI to sharpen your own engineering judgment.</p>
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<a href="https://7751c435.click.kit-mail3.com/zlu5lqnvkkunhkvg5wosphwl5omo5a47766m26vx39g5l37ewwr8q47mg9gx04mlmn3x2l787rkqp40v405nl4rlong06p0edp3v7mdqpxdk9d6zm4zqlozlqmvskknn5/08hwhgu25md3o0up/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYWloZXJvLmRldi9zL2MwMDQtZTAxNC1ncmlsbC1tZQ==" style="color:#0875c1" url-id="1857735384"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/total-typescript/image/upload/v1779724130/ai-hero-launch/c004-e014-grill-me-thumbnail.png" alt="Watch 9 Things People Get Wrong With /grill-me and /grill-with-docs" style="display:block;height:auto;line-height:100%;outline:none;-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;max-width:100%;border:0 none;display:block;max-width:600px;width:100%;height:auto;margin:0 auto 8px auto;border-radius:8px;"></a>
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<p style="margin:1em 0;font-family:-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,'Segoe UI',Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,'Helvetica Neue',sans-serif;color:#2d2d2f;font-size:16px;line-height:1.5">If you want to get good at that with me and the rest of the cohort, class starts June 1.</p>
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