<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Michaela Woodall]]></title><description><![CDATA[Author of The Navigator & The Black Box | AI Workflow & Linguistic Engineering Consultant]]></description><link>https://www.michaelawoodall.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 02:20:06 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.ninetwelvegroup.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Every AI Correction Cycle Is Someone's Revenue. Here's Why It's Never Yours.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michaela Woodall with MidJourney and Claude AI providers bill by the token. Here's the uncomfortable economics of why getting it wrong the first time costs you twice — and why fixing that was never going to be their job. After we published a piece on why politeness doesn't change your AI output, one reader asked a sharper question: "So is someone making money off us being bad at this?" The honest answer turned out to be more useful than a simple yes. No one is scheming. That might actually be...]]></description><link>https://www.ninetwelvegroup.com/post/every-ai-correction-cycle-is-someone-s-revenue-here-s-why-it-s-never-yours</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a475d511552bc17798176f3</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 07:01:28 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52571d_79c97b84b8f0495cb337ef5e7b1cadb4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_816,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michaela  Woodall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Saying "Please" to ChatGPT Doesn't Change Your Output]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sam Altman says politeness costs OpenAI millions. Here's why it doesn't actually improve your results — and what does. In April 2025, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman was asked a simple question on X: how much money has the company lost in electricity costs from people saying "please" and "thank you" to ChatGPT? His answer: tens of millions of dollars. "Well spent," he added. The internet argued about it for weeks. One side called it wasteful — millions spent processing digital manners nobody needed to...]]></description><link>https://www.ninetwelvegroup.com/post/why-saying-please-to-chatgpt-doesn-t-change-your-output</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a475a9658a63f48b075be10</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:56:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52571d_ed17489a81d74e4785dee415113e561f~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_816,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michaela  Woodall</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Your AI Keeps Giving You Generic Answers (And How to Actually Fix It)]]></title><description><![CDATA[You've asked ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini for something important — a strategy document, a client email, a piece of analysis — and what came back was fine. Competent. Grammatically clean. And utterly forgettable. It could have been written for anyone. About almost anything. So you rewrote half of it, and tomorrow you'll do it again. Here's what almost nobody explains clearly: that outcome isn't a limitation of the technology. It's a predictable result of how you engaged with it. Every AI system...]]></description><link>https://www.ninetwelvegroup.com/post/why-your-ai-keeps-giving-you-generic-answers-and-how-to-actually-fix-it</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a4756ca1552bc1779816624</guid><pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2026 06:42:22 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/52571d_32e5be65c71c4c4c96523a314a019376~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_816,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Michaela  Woodall</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>