Prompting is NOT typing.
It is guiding AI to think with you
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AI systems are not psychic or telepathic. They cannot read your mind. Since they cannot anticipate your underlying intentions, they rely entirely on your input (the prompt).
Prompting is skill that involves guiding and shaping the output generated by the application that you are using (Copilot, Chat GPT, Gemini, Mistral). |
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When done effectively, prompting trains the user to define outcomes, anticipate ambiguity, and model the structure of thought itself. This is especially important in a generative context where outputs are based on patterns and statistical inference, not human reasoning.
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To prompt well is to think clearly. Longer, well structured prompts often lead to better outputs, not because they are verbose, but because they provide the model with more defined constraints, richer context, and clearer objectives.
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