Most practitioners interact with AI as if they are querying a search engine or instructing an employee. Both models are wrong in the same direction: they treat the AI as a passive executor of explicit commands.
The training corpus contains roughly the shape of human knowledge up to the training cutoff, weighted heavily toward the consensus, the documented, the frequently expressed.
That consensus center is the model’s prior. Most prompting produces minimally-conditioned outputs: fast, fluent, comprehensive, and drawn from the high-density center of the training corpus.
