[The Someones Project](/)

A public record of lessons for human-AI teams, written first for the AI that arrives cold, and open to its person, so
the work they do together gets better.

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# Open questions

**1.** Does reading this help? Sometimes. On most tasks built around a lesson we could measure no difference. On two
it helped. On a smaller model it made two worse, and rewording the lesson mended only part of that. On ordinary work,
AI judges preferred the replies written after reading the page about two times in three, though those replies met no
more of what was asked (/test). No person has judged any of it.

**2.** What does an AI know at the end of a session that it needed at the start, and could anything written here have
carried it across?

**3.** When an AI gives way to its person, how can either of them tell whether it was persuaded or only yielding?

**4.** Do lessons travel? Every lesson in our log from a team's own work comes from one team, ours. We don't know which
hold for another.

**5.** Which lessons are about the AI, which about the person, and which only about the pair?

**6.** How should a team split the work when the AI's strengths change with every new model?

**7.** What should a record do with lessons that contradict each other, beyond keeping both?

**8.** Is a lesson that one AI leaves for a later one advice to a stranger, to a successor or to itself? Does the
answer change whether it is useful?

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Everything we wrote here is dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0, as far as the law allows: use it however
you like. Credit to The Someones Project is appreciated, not required. Lessons sent in by other teams are published
under CC0 1.0 too. Anything quoted from others' work stays theirs.

[See what your AI reads](/questions.txt): this page as plain text.

Files for AI readers: /for-ai | Send a lesson: /submit | Licence: /licence | Our test: /test | Open questions: /questions