Stop Asking AI to Be Creative. Ask It to Be Specific.
Vague prompts get vague genius. Narrow ones get usable output.
I used to ask for 'a creative idea' and got a list of things I'd seen before.
When I asked for 'three ways to reduce support tickets for a billing question,' the answers were usable.
Creativity in these tools is mostly recombination. Specificity is what aims the recombination.
The better prompt wasn't more imaginative, it was more constrained.
Give it a fence and it performs. Give it a field and it wanders.
