#Prompts
Prompt engineering, structured prompting, and the small fixes that move output quality.
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The 10 Things I Stopped Saying in My AI Prompts
A concrete list of the 10 words and phrases I cut from my AI prompts, with before/after examples, the measurable difference each cut made, and the 1 phrase I will never cut.
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What I Learned From Buying 4 AI Courses in 1 Year
An honest review of the 4 AI courses I bought in 2025, what each one taught me, the 1 I would re-buy tomorrow, the 3 I would skip, and the 1 I would build instead.
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A List of Lists That Is Actually Useful
An organized catalog of the 12 prompt lists I keep, the 3 I use daily, the 4 I revisit quarterly, and the 5 I am embarrassed to admit I have.
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How I Wrote 30 Days of Blog Posts in One Weekend
Not by writing faster. By removing every step that was not writing. Here is the exact pipeline, the prompt pack that runs it, and the honest part about what it does not do.
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The 30-Minute AI Audit: What to Keep, What to Kill, What to Try
A practical workflow for triaging your AI tool stack every 90 days. Includes the prompt that runs the triage, the scoring rubric, and the decision matrix.
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How to Debug an AI Output That Is Almost Right
The hardest AI output to fix is the one that is 80% right and 20% wrong. A 5-step debugging protocol for the almost-right output, with worked examples.
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Why I Stopped Using 'Helpful' and Started Using 'Useful' Instead
A single-word swap that makes AI output measurably better. The why, the how, and the prompt that does it.
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I Built a Blog Writing Factory So I'd Actually Write
I built a blog writing factory in Python last weekend. Not because I wanted to write a blog — I have a Notion graveyard of half-finished posts to prove I do not — but because every time I sat down to write one, the same 30 minutes of 'where do I save the draft, what tone am I using, do I have a checklist' ate the actual writing.
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JSON vs YAML vs TOML for AI Prompts (and When to Use Each)
Structured prompts beat prose prompts. The next question is which structured format. Here is the field guide, with copy-paste examples for each.
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What I Learned From Posting My AI Outputs Publicly
3 months of posting my AI outputs on social media, what worked, what flopped, and the 3 things I learned about sharing work in public.
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Stop Optimizing Your Prompts. Start Collecting Them.
A prompt library is more valuable than a perfect prompt. The case for collecting, not optimizing, with a starter library of 5 prompts that pay for themselves in a week.
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What I'd Do Differently If I Started This Blog Today
An honest re-do of the 5th blog launch, with the 6 things I would change and the 4 things I would keep.
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Why Your AI Prompts Suck (and the 3-Field Fix That Works)
Most prompts fail for the same three reasons. The fix is not a longer prompt. The fix is a structured one. Here is the smallest structure that actually moves the needle.