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A developer on Reddit pointed out my AI prompts were too vague and it doubled my output overnight
They said I was asking for "a blog post about HVAC maintenance" instead of getting specific with tone and audience, so now I write out who's reading and what they should feel after, and the results are way better obviously but has anyone else noticed how much prompt engineering matters even for simple tasks?
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the_adam15d ago
Funny enough I see this exact same thing at the hardware store all the time. Somebody just walks up and says "I need a saw" and gets annoyed when the employee asks what kind of wood they're cutting. Once you tell them "I'm cutting pine trim for my living room baseboards and I want it smooth" suddenly they're pointing you at a $30 pull saw instead of a chainsaw. Oliver_morgan's right that it's just clear communication, but I think calling it prompt engineering is fair because most people never stop to think about what they're actually asking for until someone forces them to spell it out.
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oliver_morgan16d ago
That's just called learning to write clearly, not some mystical "engineering" skill.
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