The Workshop · Workshop 04 · Practice
Three Tries Make a Prompt
Five steps. About 25 minutes. Up to 7 stars. The constellation you're building is called First Loop.
The Workshop · Workshop 04 · Practice
Five steps. About 25 minutes. Up to 7 stars. The constellation you're building is called First Loop.
Almost no good prompt is the first one you tried. You write one. You read what came back. You change yours. You try again.
The first time you ask a machine for something, it gives you what it thinks you meant. A lot of the time that's not what you actually wanted — because you didn't know how to say it yet.
The fix is not to give up. The fix is to iterate: read what came back carefully, change one thing in your prompt, ask again. Most builders run a prompt three to five times before they have what they wanted.
By the end of this workshop you'll have planned a 3-step prompt iteration on a question you actually care about.
That's the warm-up. When you've actually read it — not skimmed — tap below.
Pick all that fit.
Click a move, then what it changes.
Pick a real question. Write your first prompt. Then write what you'd change for try 2 and try 3 — before you've even seen the answers.
Stuck? Use "How do I get better at chess?" Try 1 is plain. Try 2 adds "as a 12-year-old who already knows the basics." Try 3 adds "give me one practice drill I can do today."
One sentence.