I fought the prompt, and I (mostly) won: how I started writing better AI prompts, and you can too!

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I’m not gonna lie. Prompt-writing has brought me to tears in the past. I wrote what I thought were “great” prompts that had been super repeatable for the last 10 executions, only to have the LLM decide on the 11th execution to ignore me completely and do its own thing.

And after spending weeks spinning my wheels and crying in frustration, I came to a very simple realization: I was a crappy prompt writer. Ouch. What a revelation.

So I did something about it. I learned how to up my prompt game. And after doing that, guess what? My prompts are orders of magnitude better! I also learned that it wasn’t just me. The LLM you choose to use also matters. Who knew?

Anyway, I wrote a blog post to summarize my learnings, so that you can be spared from the pain and suffering that I went through. Happy reading, and enjoy the Star Trek references!

https://adri-v.medium.com/i-fought-the-prompt-and-i-mostly-won-1c58c30e594e

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Ha, same!

Thanks for sharing this.:heart: I used to think AI sucked because nothing I generated was useful. Luckily, a friend asked me about my prompt process, and… yeah :sweat_smile: She actually showed me her AI agent, which helps her create prompts, and it’s a game changer.

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My prompts got so much better with that. Thanks a lot for sharing :star_struck:
And the best thing: not only the results got better, but with the given structure I’m also much faster at writing them :smiley:

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