How to Improve AI Output Quality

Most of us can't tell when we're producing low quality output with AI. Because AI is confident. It doesn't hedge. It doesn't say "I'm guessing here" or "I actually have no idea what your project constraints are." It just writes like it knows.There's a word for this. It's called work slop. It's work that looks professional but lacks substance. The formatting is clean. The structure makes sense. But half of the content is assumptions the AI made because you never told it otherwise. Here is how to prevent it.