Why the World's Best AI Startups Write Bad Prompts — and How to Fix It
jxnlco · x · 2026-09-11
Drawing on 1.5 years working with top AI startups, the author argues most prompts are bad because prompt evolution is accretive: teams only add, never remove, until prompts become spaghetti full of contradictions and ambiguity. The article frames this as an engineering problem rather than a writing one and lays out a systematic approach to fixing it, with direct value for engineers building AI products.
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