My boss told me to stop 'over-prompting' the AI tool at work lol

I work in marketing and I was writing these super long AI prompts with like 10 different instructions. My boss pulls me aside last Tuesday and says 'dude, the AI doesn't need a life story, just tell it what you want in 2 sentences.' I tried his way for a blog post and it actually came out way better, not all bloated and weird. Has anyone else had to un-learn how they talk to these things?

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alice4451mo ago

You said "10 different instructions" and that's actually part of the problem. The AI works better when you give it one clear goal instead of a list of demands that fight each other. Have you tried writing your prompt as a simple sentence about what you want the final result to sound like?

robertsmith1mo ago

Question whether it's really that serious though, @alice445. I mean maybe it works fine for simple stuff like writing a tweet but for anything more complex you kind of need those extra instructions to steer it right. Idk, seems like oversimplifying might just trade one set of problems for another.