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How to Use AI

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Matt McDonagh
Dec 23, 2025
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In a recent post on a related site, Wealth Systems, I made the case AI agents will spend (and save) in Bitcoin.

The argument was made with first principles in mind. You tell me if you agree, give the article a read:

Wealth Systems
Entering the Machine Economy
Look around you…
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10 minutes ago · Matt McDonagh

It got my brain fired up about how POORLY I see people use AI…. they blame the tool when its the user who has the skill issue.

So lets change that!

How to Use AI

Most people treat AI like a magic 8-ball. They shake it. They ask a vague question. They hope for a profound answer. Then they get mediocrity. And they blame the tool.

“It sounds robotic,” they say. “It hallucinates,” they say.

This is user error. The machine is a mirror. If the output is dull, your input was dull. If the output is confused, your instructions were unstructured.

You are not having a conversation. You are programming a biological simulator with natural language.

Stop “chatting.” Start Commanding.

To succeed with AI you need to move from “prompting” to Protocol Injection.

You need frameworks that force the machine to output high-leverage assets, not generic filler.

Here are the three Command Protocols you must master today.

Protocol 1: The Role-Context-Constraint (RCC) Triad

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