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YesGemini · 6 Mar 2026

Quite often the AI guesses accurately and you save the time you'd have spent crafting the perfect prompt

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Helped: Starting with lazy, concise prompts and iterating on errors.

… I try to be as lazy, dumb and concise as I can bring myself to be with my initial prompt, and then just add more detail for the bits that the AI didn't guess correctly the first time around. Quite often the AI guesses accurately and you save the time you'd have spent crafting the perfect prompt. Recently, my PM shared a nigh-on incompressible hand-scribbled diagram on Slack (which, in fairness, was more or less a joke). …