Why LLM prompting sends this dev back to Zinsser's On Writing Well
js_craft_hq · x · 2026-10-21
The author finds that the more Slack messages and LLM prompts he writes, the more he returns to the lessons in William Zinsser's On Writing Well — calling it the most pragmatic book he's read in years, as clear and concise prose matters equally when writing for humans and for models.
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