Spent 6 months prompting ChatGPT wrong before someone corrected me

I was writing super long paragraphs thinking more context was better, but a friend pointed out my outputs were bloated. Turns out short instructions with bullet points work way better for code generation. Anyone else struggle with prompt length vs clarity?

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skylergrant16h ago

Read something the other day from a guy who said he treats prompts like talking to a busy coworker. Short, direct, and only the important details. Made a lot of sense to me. Even with bullet points, some people still over-explain things. It's like they want the AI to understand their whole life story before writing a basic Python function. Took me a while to realize that shorter really is better in most cases.

terryj451d ago

Took me about 4 months to figure out the same thing actually. I was writing these massive walls of text and getting back rambling answers until I tried just listing 3-4 bullet points for what I needed and it was night and day difference.