Most product time goes to the unglamorous middle — the setup, the second draft, the review. The right prompt quietly takes that part off your plate.
Reuse the recipe
Ask for the reasoning, then the result. When the model shows its steps you can see exactly where to push back.
- Keep one ask per prompt — chaining beats cramming
- Ask for three angles, then cut to the one worth shipping
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
Start with the smallest version
Write down what you never want as explicitly as what you do. The exclusions often do more work than the instructions.
- Name the audience and the single goal before you generate
- Have the model flag what it could not cover
- Save the prompt that worked so the next person reuses it
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.