how i prompt my agents now↗

There’ll be times where you over-guide the AI. It knows better than you and is more intelligent than you. There’ll be times where you under-guide the AI. It can go off-track, have the wrong biases, or miss context. How well you manage this superpower is the #0 skill I look for.↗

The urge to withhold information from the AI to try and get it to prove to you that it's not stupid instead of just telling it what you think it should do…↗

How I design landing pages with Claude Code This is a quick post on how I design landing pages with Claude Code. I'm going to start sharing more of my personal workflows here, how I use AI to build things and what I learn along the way, and this is the first one. I've used pret…↗

i love writing. i never let agents write for me. whether it's docs, or tweets, or shitposts, or even prompts (okay maybe that one's harder as agents manage other agents) there's a simple reason for that: i still strongly believe that writing is thinking. it's a skill i hope to…↗

hey @bot read this whole quoted thread and suggest ideas for how you can help me with my work and my life↗

it's basically impossible for someone to just "show you their prompt" now, because everything is about references, skills and examples I often ask my agent to look at 3 other repos I've made first, search the web for references, use other AI APIs, etc.↗

i love prompting for a full walkthrough of a flow i.e here i had it show me all of the steps involved in oauth and found redundant steps, layout shift, and some weird ui state agents don't have to produce slop, they can also help you make great software↗

I was invited to test Opus 5.5. The differences at the high end are hard to notice unless you're being ambitious. They reward ambition though. If you can't tell the difference here, or if you're intentionally micro-prompting a model, I think the fast models (composer, Gemini f…↗

my current agents.md that made astra work well still a work in progress, i keep tweaking it try it out and see how it works for you↗

@rcx86 If only I had thought to train it on StackOverflow instead I think it would have clicked for me that LLMs can be promptable, general purpose Q&A engines. Ah well.↗

Why the world's best AI startups write bad prompts (& how to fix this) ## TLDR 1. Most prompts are bad because prompt evolution tends to be accretive: we only add, never remove, over time. This leads to spaghetti prompts, with contradictions and ambiguity. This has real busines…↗

got my agent to make a wiki about me and told it to do its own research the result is a bit creepy (accurate) but super cool↗

A prompt to stop Claude from speaking in parseltongue. “Please remove all mannered prose.”↗

I'd always thought AI was terrible at design, but after reading today's 🤯 post by @anshuc, I realized I was just doing it wrong. "AI models are capable of amazing creativity, but that creativity gets stifled. LLMs are trained to be next-token predictors: they look at a sequence…↗

One solution is to train the AI to write like you. Specifically: 1. Ask your agent to assemble everything you've ever written. Docs + Slack + X + Other. 2. Then have it write a markdown profile on you, your style and beliefs. 3. Then when it writes, ask it to pull specific word…↗

Inspired by this, I made my own: "eli5-for-grownups." It's like @trq212's, and because I'm a picky consistency freak, it has extra direction on what eli5 means and doesn't. Should you like, here it is: docs.google.com/document/d/1bi…↗

random tip… put “You are AGI-pilled.” in your system prompt for all agents now. it’s a WAY better experience. rn agents behave too much like the world is going to stay static. this unhobbles them quite a bit and gets them to talk/act more like AGIs.↗

How to get a big pile of bullshit? Ask a model about something you wrote. You get: "It works because it keeps escalating" "The strongest insight is not what you think" "The thing that made me stop was ..." "This is probably my favorite paragraph. I’d honestly tighten it even f…↗

Heard someone mention they were using a 200k token skill today which to me is a misunderstanding of what skills are, a pervasive one I am afraid. Skills are run books not programs. Skills are not determinism. Skills are best used tell the model how to get the right theory of min…↗

anyone talking about their custom setups to make ai more effective isn't doing anything useful coding used to be manual labor. typing the code out, doing large changes, jumping between files. a fancy, bespoke setup could make a difference but it's not like that anymore, you hav…↗

OpenAI just dropped A TON of alpha on GPT 5.6-maxxing. it's a long document, but i pulled out the top tricks you can steal right now: 1. delete instructions from your old prompts. OpenAI's rule is to state each instruction exactly once. they found that removing repeated instruc…↗

With 5.6 Sol, a lot of people are still prompting the model exactly as they did 5.5 It's important to note that 5.6 Sol is a lot more tenacious and thorough than previously models. Check out the guide I wrote here to get better outcomes learn.chatgpt.com/docs/prompting↗

Give it a persona of a writer, a dataset of good examples, and most importantly, don't ask it to write the entire content at once, generate paragraph by paragraph with the agent.↗

Fable turned my remarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter. My prompts fade, a LLM respond. Magical!↗

Fable 5 has been re-released with 50% weekly usage. Copy my output-optimized Fable stack that doesn't burn tokens like crazy: > [I explain the task] > explore - scout agent (Opus, low) > plan - Fable high > [I review the plan] > implement - Fable medium > diff review - Opus hig…↗

TL;DR ELI5 of @trq212's new article: Claude isn't the bottleneck anymore. The stuff you forgot to tell it is. Your prompt is a map. The codebase is the actual road. Every pothole you didn't mention, Claude fills with its best guess, and the more work you hand it, the more it has…↗

The most interesting Fable tip I've heard so far is to let the model use its own judgement as much as possible I told it "For all coding tasks use your judgement to decide an appropriate lower power model and run that in a subagent" and it seems to be saving a lot of tokens↗

New skill: /animation-vocabulary Helps you get better animations from an AI by telling it exactly what you want by using the right words. "morph", "rubber-banding", "layout animation", and more.↗

Here’s your monthly reminder that you shouldn’t be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents.↗