I stopped writing "better prompts" and started diagnosing why the output was generic — here's what was actually missing
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Spent way too long thinking I needed a bigger prompt library. Turns out almost every flat/generic AI output traces back to one of 6 things missing: no defined reader, no goal beyond the topic, a tone label instead of a real reference, no constraints, no concrete detail, or treating the first output…
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- 2026-09-08 08:33 · r/PromptEngineering
I stopped writing "better prompts" and started diagnosing why the output was generic — here's what was actually missing