Prompt

A prompt is the instruction, question, example or lump of context you give an AI so it knows what you are asking for. It can be six words, six pages or a feverish paragraph written after the third failed attempt. Good prompts help: they clarify the task, audience, constraints and standard, and they are the difference between ‘write something about trust’ and a proper brief that says what trust means here, who is reading and which bits it must not invent. But prompting is not the grand human superpower some people have tried to sell. A magnificent prompt cannot decide whether the original problem is stupid, whether the source is trustworthy, whether the answer fits the moment, or who takes responsibility when it goes sideways. The prompt starts the exchange. Judgement frames it, checks it and decides what happens next. Also, delete the prompt before submitting the homework.