I keep seeing people give up on AI because it gives them generic junk. 9 times out of 10 it's the prompt. I coach professionals on getting AI actually working for their job, and the same fix solves most of it.
Summary
Advice on improving AI outputs by crafting better prompts and building reusable systems, rather than generic requests.
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