codex tip that sounds obvious but somehow isn't: if you want it to do something, just ask it if it keeps messing up the same thing, ask it to remember what to avoid next time tell it what good looks like and what context it should use you'd be surprised how often this works…↗

a prompt I've been using a lot recently: implement <SPEC> and while you do, keep a running implementation-notes.html file (or markdown) with decisions you had to make weren't in the spec, things you had to change, tradeoffs you had to make or anything else I should know↗

killer prompt "can you repeat back to me the outcome that I am expecting?"↗

when i voice prompt, i yap for 10 minutes straight and change my mind 3 times in the middle of the yap, and send it without reading yap enough tokens for the picture to be complete, it understands well when you change your mind in the middle. ai is smarter than you think↗

developers.openai.com/api/docs/guide… **NEW: GPT-5.5 Prompting Guide** "GPT-5.5 works best when prompts define the outcome and leave room for the model to choose an efficient solution path. Compared with earlier models, you can often use shorter, more outcome-oriented prompts:…↗

@jyothiwrites yeah I dont think of prompting as "saying the right magic words", but I think of it as communicating clearly with the agent and there is a huge skill ceiling there↗

I am apparently extremely unimpressed by moltbook relative to many others. We’ve had AI agents for a while. They have been posting AI slop to each other on X. They are now posting it to each other again, just on another forum. In every case, the AIs speak with the same voice. T…↗

catching up on my reading list and this one has some great nuggets in it: > reasoning behind representing memory as a set of files > files are stored in db and exposed as filesystem to agent > hardest part of memory is prompting > /remember as a command in future direction↗

I recorded a 37-min tutorial on how to prompt with Gemini 3 to get the best UIs↗

I recorded a 44-min tutorial on how to prompt for ui↗

Prompting tip to make Cursor's new MAX mode significantly more effective and reliable: Make sure thinking is turned on. Start by clearly stating your goal. End your prompt with: "But before we start, I want you to fully explore and understand the existing codebase. Don't write…↗

this is an amazing way to think about prompting o1 from @benhylak↗

pi-context is a TypeScript project for letting an AI actively manage its own context during interactions.↗