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Let your AI think in English, even if you work in Dutch
Dutch costs your AI more working memory than English. So I let my AI work in English, and one sentence in your instruction is enough for that.
In the workshop I sometimes show the instruction of my own agent. People expect something complicated then. What stands out to them most is one little sentence at the top: you do all the work in English. You think in English and you write your intermediate steps in English. And you brief other agents in English too.
And then comes the question I see coming: 'Steff, you write everything in Dutch, right?' That is true. My articles and my emails are in Dutch, and my workshops too. Only what my AI does along the way to get there happens in English. And there is a very practical reason for that.
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Why your longest chat is your worst chat
A long chat does not train your AI, it fills the context window. Why the quality drops halfway through, and the habit that solves it.
In almost every workshop someone proudly tells me they have been working in the same chat for weeks. 'That way it gets to know me.' I understand the thought. It feels like a colleague who increasingly knows how you work. Except it is not true, and precisely because of that the answer gets worse instead of better after a while.
At the bottom of this article is the prompt you use to wrap up a long chat, so you can start fresh properly.
A chat is not a learning process
A language model does not learn while you talk to it. It predicts the next word over and over again, based on what is in its context window. That context window is its working memory: your question, the files you added, and the entire conversation up to now.
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