Category Prompting Tips

Short, actionable advice on how to write better prompts, fix bad outputs, or save time with formulas.

Prompting Tips

Prompt Templates vs. Prompt Engineering: When to Use Each

Split-screen illustration showing template-based AI prompting vs detailed prompt engineering.

Prompt Templates vs. Prompt Engineering: When to Use Each When I first started prompting seriously, I thought I had to write every single prompt from scratch. I wanted to be clever. Unique. Custom. But after enough late-night sessions rewriting the…

mstables
May 11, 2025

Prompting Tips

Top 5 ChatGPT Prompting Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Illustration of a frustrated person surrounded by AI errors, used as the blog cover for a post about common ChatGPT prompting mistakes.

New to prompting or frustrated with weak AI output? Here are 5 mistakes I made early on (and how to fix them) to write clearer, smarter prompts that actually work.

mstables
May 8, 2025