Amelia Bedelia Dressed the Chicken. So Does Your AI.

My kids love the Amelia Bedelia children’s books; AI sometimes reminds me of Amelia. In one scene, Amelia is housekeeping and her boss tells her to “dress the chicken” — and she sews it a little outfit.

Amelia is not dumb. She’s literal. She did exactly what the words said, not what her boss meant.

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That’s often what your AI does.

Eager. Brilliant. And painfully literal. It’ll put the chicken in a tiny sweater and feel confident about it.

The fix isn’t a smarter LLM. It’s better instructions from the boss.

In training HiTech’s leadership team we built “skills” on day one — a skill is just a written-down set of instructions and context you hand the AI so it stops guessing. Tell it who it’s writing for, what “done” looks like, what you’d never say. Now it dresses the chicken for dinner, not for a dinner date.

Good AI usage isn’t clever prompting in the moment. It’s teaching the AI once, so you never have to explain dressing the chicken again.

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