Tibo|17 Sept|6 min

The real reason your AI outputs feel generic

Learn why providing context and building a personal swipe file is the ultimate way to upgrade your AI-generated content.

AI development has been going on at an incredible pace.

To the point where Sam Altman, Dario, and Elon Musk are agreeing to ‘slow down progress’.

But most people still use AI like cavemen. “Build me a gorgeous website.” ”Write me a viral tweet” ”Make no mistakes.”

What comes back is slop.

That’s not a limitation of the model.

AI is trained on everything, most of which is mediocre, so with no direction, it defaults to the middle. Feed it nothing, and you get ‘average’.

The fix is not a bigger prompt - it’s great context. Here’s how to upgrade your AI output 👇🏼

The real skill isn’t prompting

The first instinct most people have is to add more detail to the prompt. Longer instructions, more adjectives, more rules about tone and structure. That doesn’t work, because detail without context doesn't help AI. You’re describing what you want in words, but the AI still has no idea what good actually looks like in your space.

What actually works: show it proven examples before you ask it to create anything.

This has been my strategy for my top social media tools - Tweet Hunter, Revid.ai, and now SuperX.so.

This is the core offering behind our social products.

SuperX.so helps you find the right inspiration and the right idea for yourself first. You find something that already works, you build on top of it, and only then do you bring AI in to help execute. The tool's whole job is getting you to that starting point faster.

The one life changing habit

Build a library. Whenever you see something great - a tweet, a landing page, an ad, a video hook, save it. Screenshot it, bookmark it, drop it in a folder. The library becomes the context your AI reads and knows what success look like. This works better than any prompt you can write.

Don’t want to build a library?

You don’t have to start from zero. A few places already do the curating for you:

A screenshot of the SuperX.so Inspiration dashboard. It shows a search bar with quick filters like 'AI coding tips' and 'marketing strategies', alongside a grid of popular social media posts from users like Alex Finn, Matt Welter, Jaydeep, and Karthik Sathish, displaying their engagement metrics.
ImageA screenshot of the SuperX.so Inspiration dashboard. It shows a search bar with quick filters like 'AI coding tips' and 'marketing strategies', alongside a grid of popular social media posts from users like Alex Finn, Matt Welter, Jaydeep, and Karthik Sathish, displaying their engagement metrics.
A screenshot of the Revid.ai homepage featuring a dark mode interface with the headline 'Search viral TikTok videos'. It includes a search bar, filter options, and a carousel of video thumbnails at the bottom.
ImageA screenshot of the Revid.ai homepage featuring a dark mode interface with the headline 'Search viral TikTok videos'. It includes a search bar, filter options, and a carousel of video thumbnails at the bottom.

Use these if you’re short on time. But building your own library still wins long term, because it ends up shaped exactly around your niche and your voice.

Why this compounds

The people who get noticeably better results from AI over time are the ones who saved something great yesterday, and the day before, and the day before that. They have big swipe files of stuff to pull inspiration from. Their first AI draft is better than most people’s final draft.

Every save adds to the context. Every week, the library gets richer, and everything the AI generates from it gets a little better, because there’s simply more proof of what “good” looks. Average input gives you average output. Better your inputs.

Reply and tell me 👇🏼 Where is the top place you go for inspiration? Do you create a swipe file for your industry? I read all your responses and reply often :)

Video of the week

If you’re active on X, you know how Marc sold his body for sponsorship 👀 Well…here’s what happened next:

A 3D animated style image of a muscular man with a mustache running on a track. He is wearing earphones, and his chest and arms are covered in bright yellow patches featuring QR codes and a snake logo.
ImageA 3D animated style image of a muscular man with a mustache running on a track. He is wearing earphones, and his chest and arms are covered in bright yellow patches featuring QR codes and a snake logo.

Tweet of the week

Every year, there is one article that changes how people think. For 2026, I think it’s this:

Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller After months of writing, 'How to Unclench' is finally live! It's an interactive essay packed with stories, science & guided practices to help you unclench. → https://howtounclench.com

A two-panel cartoon illustration. On the left, a man struggles to climb a tall ladder labeled 'Wealth', 'Achievement', and 'Fame' to reach a small star in the sky. On the right, a relaxed man opens a ground hatch labeled 'Unclench' to reveal a massive, glowing golden reservoir of light beneath him.
ImageA two-panel cartoon illustration. On the left, a man struggles to climb a tall ladder labeled 'Wealth', 'Achievement', and 'Fame' to reach a small star in the sky. On the right, a relaxed man opens a ground hatch labeled 'Unclench' to reveal a massive, glowing golden reservoir of light beneath him.

Jonny Miller @jonnym1ller one of the best ways you can experience this is turn on a cold shower, and notice what happens to your body as you’re about to go in, then train yourself to unbrace… and then apply that same move to everything in increasingly subtle ways 5:58 PM • Sep 14, 2026 245 Retweets 3137 Likes Read 108 replies

Until next week, Keep building Tibo 💻

P.S. Start building a library today if you haven’t already. The habit only compounds once you begin collecting. Got this newsletter sent by a friend? - sign up for the weekly newsletter here

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