After Testing 847 AI Prompts, I Found the 6 Patterns That Actually Work (And Why Yours Don't)
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I wasted an entire weekend arguing with an AI that kept giving me the same wrong answer in five different tones. Polite. Professional. Friendly. “Expert-level.” Same output. Different flavor. That weekend is what kicked off a slightly unhinged experiment: I started saving every prompt I wrote, every output I got, and whether it actually did what I wanted. Six months later, I had 847 prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, and a few niche tools like Perplexity and Cursor. Some…
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- I wasted an entire weekend arguing with an AI that kept giving me the same wrong answer in five different tones.
- That weekend is what kicked off a slightly unhinged experiment: I started saving every prompt I wrote, every output I got, and whether it actually did what I wanted.
- Six months later, I had 847 prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, and a few niche tools like Perplexity and Cursor.
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