Prompting · 2026-08-15

Be specific or be silent

Vague lines don't stay neutral — they trigger invention. "She does something elegant" makes the model invent the something; "in the distance" makes it invent the distance; "stunning" makes it invent whatever its training data averaged stunning to be. If you can't name what you want, don't write a placeholder.

Cut the line. An absence is safer than a blank cheque.