AI and ChatGPT are constantly evolving in new and annoying ways. These articles explore weird AI behaviours, control the conversation, build clearer questions, and evaluate and refine results so you get more useful, trustworthy answers faster, easier and with a lot less stress.

Staying in the Right Lane

Staying in the Right Lane

A practical guide to understanding why ChatGPT conversation drift, ignore instructions, rewrite your intent, and quietly optimise for the wrong thing. This article explores pattern wandering, sycophantic compliance, and the “helpful override,” alongside practical methods to regain conversation control using structured interaction modes, clearer constraints, and structured evaluation methods.