18Context is everything

If you remember one thing from this stage, make it this one.

Answer quality depends not on magic words but on how much useful material you gave it. AI is not telepathic. It doesn't know what your project is, what you already tried, or what "nice" means to you.

Compare two requests.

Bad: "make my button prettier".

Good: "here's my button, here's the code. The site is dark, the font is Inter, the accent is teal. I want it to look more expensive - roughly like the screenshot I attached. No animation, I don't like that".

The second is ten times longer and will save you half an hour of arguing. That is all prompting is: not an incantation, just explaining the task like a normal human being.

Three things nearly always worth adding: what you have now, what it should become, what you already tried and why it didn't work.