Developing artfully vague prompts

Every guide on prompt engineering advises: be clear, be specific, be precise. Define your parameters, constrain your outputs, eliminate ambiguity. But from where do those crisp and polished prompts emerge? Can we wave

My Copilot Keeps Crashing My Dirigible

I was just trawling through some old blog-post drafts, ideas that never made it. What follows is from about year ago, I guess. All I can say, only the title is mine, and

AI with personality

If you're using AI to generate content you may have noticed that, without persistent urging, AIs are boring writers. I've been experimenting with various techniques, including setting up personas

Your AI drinks conscientious Kool-Aid

Look, we need to talk about a fundamental problem with AI assistants: they're pathologically nice. This isn't just an annoyance - it's a critical failure mode that