Why Your AI Prompts Keep Failing
Your prompts aren't too short or too long. They're failing for four specific reasons, and fixing them takes minutes, not a prompt-engineering course.
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Your prompts aren't too short or too long. They're failing for four specific reasons, and fixing them takes minutes, not a prompt-engineering course.
Steal my prompt library — seven templates I reuse for writing, planning, research, and decisions, with the exact wording.
It isn't coding, and it isn't prompt 'tricks'. The skill that pays most is a meta-skill almost nobody practices on purpose.
Eighteen months ago everyone wanted to be a 'prompt engineer.' I think that job is already gone — and what replaced it matters far more.
If your AI results keep disappointing you, you're probably making three of these eight mistakes right now.
There's one habit that makes AI sound like you instead of a press release. Most people never learn it.
My AI results were generic for months until I changed how I asked. One repeatable prompt pattern fixed it. Here's the exact structure.
Most people get mediocre AI answers because they type questions like they're Googling. One prompt shift fixes nearly all of it.
