The trap with product prompts is asking for the finished thing. Ask for options instead, then bring your taste to the edit.
Reuse the recipe
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
- Compare two outputs instead of trusting one
Anchor to one reader
Ask for the reasoning, then the result. When the model shows its steps you can see exactly where to push back.
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
Treat the first output as a draft, not a verdict. The prompt does the typing; you keep the judgment about what ships.