The Daily Prompt: Ask for Ten Terrible Ideas Before You Ask for a Good One
Creative block usually means you're guarding the first idea too closely. Today's prompt makes the model go wide, bad and weird, so you can end up somewhere good.
by Jonah Kim
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Jonah writes The Daily Prompt — one prompt, one idea, every day. Previously a teacher, forever a tinkerer.
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The Brief-Back Prompt: Make Your AI Repeat the Assignment Before It Starts
An old classroom trick for modern models: before any big task, ask the AI to restate the job, flag its risky assumptions and ask you three questions.
by Jonah Kim
The Daily Prompt: Make Your Agent Hand You a Receipt Before It Says 'Done'
Agents are optimistic narrators. Today's prompt makes them account for what they did, what they skipped and what they assumed, in five short sections you can read in forty seconds.
by Jonah Kim
The Explain-It-Three-Ways Prompt for Learning Anything Hard
One explanation rarely sticks. An analogy, a mechanism and a worked example, plus a test question, usually does. A former teacher's favorite learning prompt.
by Jonah Kim
The Pre-Mortem Prompt: Ask AI How Your Project Already Failed
Imagine it's six months from now and the plan has flopped. This prompt turns that grim fantasy into ranked risks, early warning signs and one cheap test to run this week.
by Jonah Kim