Lessons

The Prompting Playbook

Stop prompting the moment it breaks

The instinct when something breaks is to immediately send another prompt.

3 min#When It Breaks

The instinct when something breaks is to immediately send another prompt. Resist it. Every prompt you fire at a broken state stacks new changes on top of a fault you haven't identified yet — and now two things are wrong instead of one.

Before anything else, note the last prompt that worked. That's your restore point, and knowing it turns a scary problem into a small one.