The Only Prompt Hack You Actually Need (No, You...

I'll be honest. When I first heard "prompt engineering" I thought it was just a buzzword people used to sound smart on Twitter. Then I started getting genuinely bad results from AI. Like, embarrassingly bad. I'd ask ChatGPT or Claude to help me write something, debug something, plan something, and the response would be this generic, surface-level answer that helped nobody. The problem wasn't the AI. It was me. I didn't know how to talk to it. So what even is prompt engineering? It's just this: w