89. Your AI Is Lying to You (And You'd Never Know): How to Prompt Smarter Before It Costs You

Episode notes

Hosts: Justin Shelley - Phoenix IT Advisors: Mario Zaki - Mazteck IT: Bryan Lachapelle - B4 Networks: Joshua Holloway - Most business owners are using AI every single day - and most of them are doing it wrong. Not because they're not smart, but because nobody ever showed them the difference between Googling a question and actually working with AI. In this episode of Unhacked, Justin, Mario, Bryan, and Josh break down the AI prompting frameworks that separate vague, hit-or-miss results from sharp, professional-grade outputs. Josh walks through the PTCF framework (Persona, Task, Context, Format) live - and the results speak for themselves: a generic prompt produced a 12-page document. The same request, properly framed, produced a 24-page, policy-ready incident response playbook. The hosts also get real about AI's dark side: hallucinations that send you to the grocery store for the wrong ingredients, wrong time zone answers delivered with total confidence, and why blindly trusting AI output in a business context can be genuinely dangerous.

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