Build With AI

Building a real tool with AI is one strong founding prompt plus a review loop. You supply the expertise and the judgement; the AI supplies the research, the build, and the iteration.

Five prompts are the skeleton of that loop — the founding prompt, a design brief, a self-audit, a specialist risk review, and an integrity check. Swap the domain, keep the structure.

Name a topic — famous Australians, 90s music, your team's in-jokes, your own family — and get back one self-contained HTML file: a player lobby, clue-by-clue reveals, a live scoreboard, a winner screen. No app, no login, no accounts. Open it on a phone, put the phone in the middle of the table, and let people shout.

The engine is a difficulty ladder: six clues per answer, hardest first, and guessing early is worth more than guessing safe. That's the rule that makes a room lean in rather than politely take turns — and the skill holds the line on it, so no clue gives the answer away at number three.

It will not save you a minute. That's the point: a build with no stakes rehearses the exact loop behind the serious ones — write the spec, iterate, judge the quality, ship it — with the pressure removed and the reps still counting.

The skill came out of a real build, not the other way round. Play it now and you're playing the original: eighteen famous Australians, Bradman to Margot Robbie, made at work on a lunch break with the Copilot my employer provides.