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Prompting 101: How to Talk to AI Builders

The prompting habits that separate people who ship from people who fight their tools all day.

Joe MarinoAug 8, 2026 8 min

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Prompts are briefs, not spells\n\nTreat the AI like a very fast junior developer who has never met you. Context beats cleverness.\n\n## The four-part prompt\n\n1. **What** you want built\n2. **Where** it goes in the app\n3. **How** it should look or behave\n4. **What not** to change\n\n## Be specific about the thing you can see\n\n"The card on the pricing page has too much padding" is actionable. "It looks off" is not.\n\n## Undo is free\n\nExperiment aggressively. You can always roll back.\n\n> Placeholder content — replace with your real tutorial copy.

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