Prompting · 2026-08-11

Every degree of freedom you leave is a degree you've lost

Models resolve every ambiguity by defaulting to the most common interpretation in their training data — which is the most generic possible reading. Unspecified camera position, unspecified light source, unspecified time of day, unspecified character orientation: each one is a decision you just handed to the average.

The model doesn't fill gaps with imagination. It fills them with cliché.