my father, 35 years of banking, and claude
My father was preparing for a promotion interview. He has spent 35 years in banking, 18 of which in leadership, and is by most measures one of the best executives at his institution.
Every time he prepped for a new role like this, he would find someone at his level or one or two above, have them ask questions and collect feedback. The problem is that the person giving the feedback also doesn't know what he doesn't know.
The panel conducting the actual interview is a decision-making committee that operates at a much more strategic level. The gap between what a colleague asks and what that panel asks is rarely accounted for in traditional prep.
What AI makes possible is that you can now simulate an evaluator, not just a colleague. Give it a well-crafted system prompt and it can take on that persona, reason with you, think with you, and help you do the work.
He invoked the persona of a senior executive, answered its questions, and got pointed feedback on his articulation after every response.
The results are still pending, but the pointed feedback helped him articulate better and he came out confident.
Most of the questions the panel asked were very close to what Claude had been asking him during prep, because it was reasoning from the perspective of a senior evaluator, not a colleague.
Only a small number of people globally have figured out how to use AI as a thinking partner. Look around you, your parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, grandparents, chances are they are not using AI at all. Bring them into this.
There is an abundance of intelligence sitting in your phone and your computer. Most people just don't know it's there.