Faculty III · How to outwit the model
Outwit the intern
Mean briefs. See slop. Generate then kill. Taste, stakes, timing. Guard the remainder.
Five papers. Then Spar, where the intern hits back.
Paper 01 · 12 min
The model is a fast intern
Treat Grok, and every other model, as a sleepless junior who has read the internet and has never been in the room. Useful. Not in charge.
Paper 02 · 12 min
The slop signature
Learn to see AI-generic at a glance: symmetrical feature lists, hollow verbs, unearned 'seamless', ideas with no embarrassing minute.
Paper 03 · 12 min
Generate the obvious — then kill it
The only honest use of a model at idea-time is to map the kill zone quickly, in public, so you are not tempted to live there.
Paper 04 · 12 min
Taste, stakes, timing
Three things the model cannot have: taste (a history of refusals), stakes (something to lose), timing (being in the minute). That is the remainder you can train.
Paper 05 · 12 min
The human remainder
After the intern has drafted, mapped, and argued, something should still be left that only you could have put there. If nothing is left, you were the intern.