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Audit Yourself to Get More From GenAI
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Audit Yourself to Get More From GenAI

by Vipin Gupta
April 2026
Intermediate
7 pages
26m
English
MIT Sloan Management Review
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Audit Yourself to Get More From GenAI

The people who get the best results from AI aren’t the most technical: They’re the most disciplined. Apply this self-audit tool to keep improving your GenAI sessions.

More than a year into using generative AI daily, I wondered whether I was getting the most out of my AI use. There was no benchmark or feedback loop, and no one was grading my sessions with ChatGPT and Claude — until I created a self-audit.

I did what I’ve always done when faced with a process that lacked measurement. I studied every method I could find — prompting guides, conversations with colleagues, my own session patterns. I used AI to help me use AI better. Over time, I built a single self-audit prompt — one ...

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