Why Your AI Sounds Like It Swallowed a Business Textbook
You know that moment when you ask ChatGPT for help and it responds like a middle manager who just discovered LinkedIn? Yeah. That's not you. That's the AI having an identity crisis.
Prompt therapy for your AI. No corporate robots allowed.
You know that moment when you ask ChatGPT for help and it responds like a middle manager who just discovered LinkedIn? Yeah. That's not you. That's the AI having an identity crisis.
If you just throw an egg in water and walk away, you might get something edible. Or you might get a rubbery disaster. Prompting is the same way.
Every day, someone asks ChatGPT to "be creative" and then wonders why it spits out the same boring LinkedIn-core drivel. Let me save you the frustration.
Not all bad prompts are created equal. Some are just lazy. Others are ambitious disasters. Here's a taxonomy of terrible prompting.
Tone is everything. Same content, different tone = completely different vibe. But most people just slap "make it professional" on every prompt.
Good prompts aren't magic. They're structured. Here's the formula I use for 90% of my prompts — and why each piece matters.
If I see the word "delve" one more time, I'm going to delve right into the ocean. You know the words I'm talking about.
Most people use AI for research like this: "Tell me about [topic]." Then they get a generic overview that's technically correct, utterly useless.
Here's a truth nobody wants to hear: your first prompt will be bad. Not "needs a tweak" bad. Properly, embarrassingly bad. And that's fine.
You've mastered the basics. Your prompts are specific, structured, and don't sound like a corporate robot wrote them. Now let's get weird.