Prompt Craft
Rewrite the question until the answer is one you could check
Where you have no way to verify what comes back, the practical move is to change the question rather than…
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Prompt Craft
What makes an instruction work twice, not once.
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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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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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Ask about the shape of the problem when you cannot hand over the material
Confidentiality removes the input from the conversation without removing the question, and the workable…
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A form you have never written before needs its conventions requested first
When the document type is unfamiliar the difficulty is not the sentences but the expectations attached to…
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A correction that names the span it applies to is the one that lands
Revision requests usually describe a dissatisfaction rather than a location, and the fix is to say which…
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Ask for the criteria before the verdict, and the verdict has to live with them
Ordering a request so that the standards are written down before the judgement is made gives you something…
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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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