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Productivity · Beginner · about 16 minutes

From vague to specific — five rewrites that fix 80% of bad prompts

The output is not wrong exactly — it is just not useful. So you try again with slightly different words. And again.

You need
Original prompt: How should I price my SaaS product? Output received: 'Pricing depends on many factors including your target market, value proposition, competitor pricing, and cost structure.
Tool
Your default assistant
You get
Diagnosis: Failure 1 (generic) plus Failure 5 (hedged). Information I did not have: What does the product do?
Time saved
Cuts a typical six-attempt fiddling loop to two attempts. Roughly 10–15 minutes per non-trivial task.

The steps come with the AI Playbook

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From vague to specific — five rewrites that fix 80% of bad prompts · Workflow | SMEMinds Playbook