Prompt engineering: How to fix instructions that AI ignores
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While running automation pipelines on my Mac mini, I hit a recurring wall: the AI simply wouldn't follow directions. Whether generating articles or summarizing text, I spent hours tweaking prompts to get the length, tone, and structure right. Through this trial and error, I realized that while AI i…
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- 2026-09-21 08:44 · DEV Community — AI
Prompt engineering: How to fix instructions that AI ignores