The best way to learn AI, is to learn by example, from each other
December 16, 2024
"How did you get AI to do that?"
This question sparked a turning point in our founding story. Like many teams today, we each had our own way of talking to AI, and that's okay, but the real gap is it leads to different beliefs about what AI could do. It's a classic "you don't know what you don't know" situation – and this invisible gap in understanding means AI skills naturally drift apart.
The story was like this: we decided to check each other’s Claude and ChatGPT conversations. We found that one of us treated AI like an intern – explaining context and working through multiple iterations. The other used it like a search engine, asking for quick, one-off answers.
But the real breakthrough came when we started combining our approaches. We merged our prompts and built on each other's ideas. The results were better than anything we'd achieved alone.
That's when we realized: AI shouldn't be trapped in private conversations. Its true power comes from shared exploration and collective thinking. Yet today, every team member has their own separate dialogue and develops their own techniques, with no easy way to learn from each other.
This insight became the foundation for illumi. We're building the collaborative AI workspace we wished we had from the start. A place where teams can learn from each other's AI work, build on shared discoveries, and find new possibilities together.
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