Jimmy Koppel: vague 'make it better' prompts set your AI engineer up to fail
jimmykoppel · x · 2026-11-02
Software engineering coach Jimmy Koppel notes that the fastest way to make an engineer fail is a giant open-ended request like "make the app better" — and many AI prompts look exactly like that. He teases a follow-up on how to write prompts that actually work, applying requirements-engineering principles to AI instructions.
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