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Picture a prompt you once fired at AI — and got back something useless.
Now don't think of it as a chat message. Picture it as ordering a bespoke suit from a tailor while mumbling under your breath: "something dark… roughly my size…" The tailor nods politely and cuts blind.
Run it in your head: what kind of "suit" came back? What went unsaid — what did the AI have to guess?
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Return to the tailor: a good suit comes from measurements, fabric, and a clear sketch—not guesses.
Which single measurement will you add to your next order for AI?
An LLM is a prediction machine. It continues your text the way a typical person would in that context.
When you write "Write an article about marketing" — the model guesses:
Formula for a bad prompt:
Task without context = assumptions without criteria = lottery