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An instruction that only works once was underspecified, not unlucky
Two worked examples teach a format that a page of rules will not
Saying what you do not want is the half of the instruction people leave out
Describe the shape of the answer before you describe the task
Asking the tool to play a role moves the vocabulary more than the judgement
Restarting a draft usually beats the fourth round of corrections
Handing over the editing is a different bargain from handing over the…
Anything only you know is the part the draft will be missing
Generated prose drifts towards the middle of everything it has read
The blank page and the last paragraph are not equally good places to ask
An image prompt describes a picture, not the scene it depicts
Changing one thing at a time is the only way to learn what an image prompt…
Anything that has to be counted should not be asked of an image generator
Describing the light and the lens gets further than naming a style
Synthetic narration is punctuated speech and the punctuation is the control
One long instruction hides which step failed
A workflow without a checking step ships its worst output
Long inputs sag in the middle and the fix is structural
A prompt you cannot find again is not part of a workflow
The step worth automating is the one whose failure you would notice
Catching a wrong answer means checking the claim, not asking again
Fluent, well organised and about nothing: the output to throw away
A tool that agrees with you has not confirmed anything
What you paste in is a decision you have already made
The skill you stop practising is the one you needed to check the output
Ask for the format your next step needs, not the one that looks tidy
Give it the brief, not the archive
A constraint stated once behaves like a suggestion
Making it ask you questions costs less than three failed attempts
Two requirements that conflict get reconciled without telling you
Asking for a critique gets you praise with a caveat attached
Editing someone else’s draft carries obligations that editing your own does…
Translation lands the meaning and loses the register
Publishing in a language you cannot read is a bet you cannot check
Short writing is where a pile of options actually earns its keep
Fixing part of a picture is a different job from asking for another one
A written style specification is what makes a set of pictures look related
Decide the shape and the size before you write a word of the prompt
Starting from a photograph you already have is a more controllable problem
Repairing a recording is a steadier use than synthesising one
Splitting a task can cost you the thing that held it together
A prompt with slots in it is a tool; one you retype is a habit
Run twenty before you run two thousand
A process that runs unattended decays without announcing it
Waiting time and cost per item are design decisions, not details
A summary you accepted is a document you have not read
The first draft you are shown becomes the piece you write
Right answer, wrong reasoning, and it breaks on the next case
Some things stay yours because the consequences do
The tells that survive into published work
A prompt written for someone else has to carry the context you never typed
Ask for options that differ along an axis, or you get one idea five times
Rewrite the question until the answer is one you could check
“Concise”, “professional” and “engaging” do not survive the trip
Length is controlled by structure, not by asking for a word count
A house style holds across fifty pieces only if it is written down as rules
Rewriting a piece for a different reader changes the argument, not just the…
Routine messages go wrong by being longer and warmer than the situation
Bring the position with you, because a draft without one finds the middle
Working up your own notes is the case where drafting help is least risky
Colour is requested as a mood and delivered as an approximation
Sound that sits under a voice has to be built to lose the argument
Enlarging a picture invents the detail it appears to recover
Generating an element is easier than generating a picture
Period and place come back as pastiche unless you supply the details
Pulling fields out of messy documents works, and the empty ones decide…
Reviewing two hundred outputs is a different skill from reviewing one
The step you have specified perfectly should probably be code
Handing over a working process means handing over the failures too
Measure the whole task, or you will keep believing the fast part
The output that is nearly right is the one that gets through
When checking costs more than doing, the tool has stopped saving anything
A research answer arrives already sorted, and the sorting is the problem
A number acquires authority the moment it is written down
Material that has already been through the tool is a poor input for the…
Ask about the shape of the problem when you cannot hand over the material
A form you have never written before needs its conventions requested first
A correction that names the span it applies to is the one that lands
Ask for the criteria before the verdict, and the verdict has to live with…
A rule added for every failure produces a prompt nobody can read
Harvest the paragraphs worth keeping before you throw the draft away
The tenth piece on your subject repeats the second unless you plan against…
Matching one person’s voice from samples reproduces their habits, not their…
A quotation that came back through the draft is no longer a quotation
Two people drafting the same document converge on a voice neither of them…
A picture of a person who does not exist still resembles somebody
A generated clip is a shot, and a sequence of them is a different problem
Removing something from a photograph changes what the photograph says
Showing a generated image as a concept sets an expectation you may not be…
Asking a tool to describe a picture is reliable about the subject and not…
Work out the manual route before the deadline, not during it
Changing the method halfway leaves you with two batches rather than one
Six months on, nobody can tell which parts of the document you decided
Most of the work in a document process happens before the tool sees anything
What passes between two steps has to carry more than the answer
How sure it sounds is not information you can use
Approving work you did not watch being made
Explaining to a colleague why you did not use the tool for this one
The cost of a document you generated is paid by whoever has to read it
An answer drawn from your own document can still come from somewhere else