No-Novel Prompts
Your cover letter monologue prompts arent helping anymore.
"You are a top-performing auto consultant. Follow OEM voice. Think step by step. Consider everything. This is CRITICAL..." Then the actual ask, two lines later.
Turns out the model didn't need the warmup. Today's LLMs reward three things: context, intelligence, brevity. Give it the role, the goal, the format. Skip the altar call.
A 2-line prompt beats a 6-line ritual every time. Same model. Cleaner output.
Stop trying so hard.
It's really crazy to go back through all my Chats from the start of AI and see how my prompting has changed. It's pretty crazy how fast everything is happening, and what was once best practice will now waste context, burn extra tokens and yield worse results.