I love reading in French and am always looking for book recommendations. “So why not use AI?” I thought naively.  “Maybe I’ll get some good ideas.” And I did, but it wasn’t as straightforward as I expected.

I’m not an AI user, so I asked google how to write my prompt (in other words, I used AI to use AI.) The prompt listed books I had liked, then asked that they be analyzed and used to recommend five new ones.

I proposed that prompt to three popular AIs and got different answers from each. The first got confused, the second thought I like very old books, and the third just made stuff up. But I did end up with a few good book ideas.

You can read about my adventure with technology in My French Life!