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Natural conversations

Feb 14, 2025

There’s no perfect prompt, no perfect instruction, no perfect project spec. That’s not where the work is done. The prompts are the sentences, the memos, the emails to the team along the way. When we talk to the human, we don’t sit there to craft a perfect sentence before the words come out. We let them come out and we shape it how it comes, together in the conversation.

Real work is messy and undefined and unpredictable. Spending any time to craft a prompt is time wasted. We’ve got it in our heads that they need a good prompt. With enough iterations, a long chain of two-word prompts will outdo an excellent and laborious 2-shot prompt. And you yourself as the operator will gather way more insights along the way than the two responses.

Following obsessions

Feb 15, 2023

Knowing when is enough is the secret. There’s different levels of obsessions, all concurrently pulling and influences us.

We find ourselves in the middle.