The trap with product prompts is asking for the finished thing. Ask for options instead, then bring your taste to the edit.
Cut before you polish
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
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
Reuse the recipe
Lock the parts that never change and leave one slot for the variable. Now every run shares a family resemblance instead of starting from scratch.
Start with the smallest version
Treat the first output as a draft, not a verdict. The prompt does the typing; you keep the judgment about what ships.
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
- Lower the reading level, then check what broke
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
Ask for the reasoning, then the result. When the model shows its steps you can see exactly where to push back.