How to prevent AI assistants from giving unverified advice that wastes your time?
How to prevent AI assistants from giving unverified advice that wastes your time
I’ve been working on WordPress performance optimization (LiteSpeed Cache + Avada theme + Cloudflare) with an AI assistant and ran into a recurring problem that I suspect others face too.
The AI repeatedly suggested options that didn’t exist in the interface, misread screenshots, gave contradictory advice within the same conversation, and recommended changes that broke the site. Each mistake required time to diagnose and reverse. The core issue is that AI models answer confidently even when uncertain. Until that’s solved, the burden is on the user to slow the AI down and demand verification.
Has anyone found better prompting strategies for technical configuration work? I’ve been trying Claude, chat, Gemini and grok all of them are very similar with the useless tips