Prompt Craft
Two worked examples teach a format that a page of rules will not
Rules describe the edges of what you will accept, examples describe the middle of it, and for anything with…
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Devika Menon
Reporter, Prompt After Prompt
Devika has been reporting on prompt craft, writing with ai, images & audio since long before it was fashionable and reads the small print so you do not have to.
Writing With AI
Editing someone else’s draft carries obligations that editing your own does not
Running another person’s writing through a tool changes their work, their voice and sometimes their…
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Images & Audio
Repairing a recording is a steadier use than synthesising one
The audio work that pays off consistently is the unglamorous kind — cleaning, transcribing and cutting real…
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Workflows
A prompt with slots in it is a tool; one you retype is a habit
The difference between an instruction you rewrite every time and one with named blanks is that only the…
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Prompt Craft
A prompt written for someone else has to carry the context you never typed
An instruction that works reliably in your own hands tends to fail in a colleague’s, because most of what…
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Prompt Craft
“Concise”, “professional” and “engaging” do not survive the trip
Subjective quality words carry a precise meaning in your head and an average one everywhere else, which is…
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Prompt Craft
Length is controlled by structure, not by asking for a word count
A requested number of words is treated as an aspiration rather than a limit, and the reliable controls are…
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Writing With AI
Bring the position with you, because a draft without one finds the middle
Argumentative writing produced without a stated conclusion arrives balanced, hedged and committed to…
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Images & Audio
Period and place come back as pastiche unless you supply the details
Images set in a specific time or culture default to the most widely circulated version of that setting…
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Prompt Craft
A rule added for every failure produces a prompt nobody can read
Instructions grow by accretion because each disappointing result adds a clause, and past a certain size the…
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Writing With AI
Two people drafting the same document converge on a voice neither of them has
Co-authoring with drafting assistance on both sides produces a text that reads as consistent and belongs to…
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Images & Audio
A generated clip is a shot, and a sequence of them is a different problem
Short moving images are produced one shot at a time, which means the difficulties are continuity, timing…
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