3 Easy Fixes for Everyday Chatbot Headaches

They're not revolutionary, but they might come in handy.

Look, chatbots are pretty great.

Without them, we’d have a hard time coming up with repetitive lists of exactly three things or counting the r’s in “strawberry.”

But now and then, I run into minor annoyances when working with them.

So I’ve developed a few simple workarounds that do the trick for me.

If you’re in the same boat, then get the hell out of my boat, pal! It’s a one-person inflatable, and you’re gonna drown us both. Jesus!

Anyway, maybe you’ll find these little quality-of-life tricks helpful.

1. Get context-aware draft analysis

I often use chatbots as beta readers for my writing.

The headache:

I draft my newsletter posts directly in the Substack editor.

I like to know exactly how the final post will appear, including embedded YouTube links, images with captions, and so on.

But to get feedback from a chatbot, I previously used to copy-paste the draft, which…