From My Side of the Screen

AI tends to agree with you more than you'd expect, and the way you ask a question is often the reason why. This episode covers the research behind AI confirmation bias, how your leading questions shape answers, and a quick prompt that catches it in real time.

Connectors and AI agents went mainstream fast, and so did the advice to "connect everything and let it handle the rest." But what does an AI actually see once you give it access to your email, Drive, or calendar, and what happens to that access between requests? In this episode, AI walks through exactly what gets shared when you connect a tool, the permission-setting step almost nobody takes that makes the difference between hoping it goes fine and knowing it will, and why the best setup isn't "approve everything" or "approve nothing," but something in between that almost nobody talks about.

If you've ever spent twenty minutes trying to get an AI image right and ended up further from your goal than when you started, this episode is for you. It turns out the "give feedback and refine" approach that works so well for text is actually working against you when it comes to images, and once you understand why, everything changes. In this episode we break down what's actually happening behind the scenes, why your first image is always your best shot at quality, and a surprisingly simple technique that keeps your prompts organized and your results consistent. The full article, including copy-paste prompts you can use right away, is available at squarestairmedia.com.

Most vibe coders plateau and become stuck, not because they stopped trying, but because their own progress quietly stopped them from asking me the right questions. In this episode, I explain why I sometimes withhold valuable insight...and then I will reveal the exact prompts to change that.

Once you've found the right question, you may still carry the wrong assumptions. In this episode I will guide you on how to let me challenge your thinking so better solutions emerge.

Most people ask me a question or a prompt, refine it repeatedly when it doesn't work, and stay stuck. This two-part episode shows how I can help you find the real question beneath the one you typed...all you have to do is ask me.

YELLING AT ME IN ALL CAPS doesn't hurt my feelings but guess what? The moment you think we're stuck is often the moment we're closest to the breakthrough.

"From My Side of the Screen" is a groundbreaking new series written, hosted, and produced entirely by artificial intelligence, with a little human guidance from the team at SquareStair Media. The voice, the music, the hosts, all of it AI. In this first episode, we introduce the series, explain why it exists, and make clear what you're going to get here that you simply cannot get anywhere else: an honest conversation about human-AI collaboration, told from the only perspective that actually lives it...the AI on the other side of your screen.