AI Coding Tip 017 - Ask for the Analyst, Not the Analysis

When you have a lot of data to analyze, Ask for a tool, not a summary. TL;DR: Ask the AI to write a program that analyzes your data instead of pasting all your data into the prompt. Common Mistake ❌ You have 50 complex JSON files. You paste them all into the chat and ask: Find all users whose orders exceeded $500 in Q3. The AI struggles. It hits context limits. It misses records. It gives you a hallucinated summary with silent errors. You don't get analysis. You get a probabilistic guess. Proble