Stop Writing Prompts Like a Robot Wrote Them

My job is to notice when a number is doing the talking.

The prompts people paste into share threads read like a thesaurus exploded. More adjectives is not more control.

The evidence side: The prompts that work name the audience, the constraint, and the one thing to avoid. Three clauses beat three paragraphs.

The caveat nobody mentions: I write prompts the way I would brief a person. If a human would roll their eyes, the model probably will too.

Good enough to draft with, not to bet on.