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Your prompts are stuck in 2025. Here are 5 fixes
Published 2 weeks ago
Description
Some prompts have been with you for a year or more. They open with a grand persona for the AI, add a few rules in capital letters, and finish with a request to think it all through. They worked well once, and lately the results feel slightly off.
The AI models have changed, and a few of the habits we picked up in 2024 and 2025 now work against us.
In this How I AI episode, Neo and I walk through five ways good prompting has changed as of October 2026. You will come away with a simple way to tighten up the prompts you rely on most.
What you’ll learn:
- What a persona really changes in an AI response
- When a goal and a finished example beat step-by-step instructions
- Why asking AI to think through its answer can backfire
- How to add emphasis without boxing the AI in
- What a good checklist looks like before AI hands work back
- Practical AI tools for productivity and focus
- Real-world AI workflows used by high performers
- How to use AI at work without burning out
- Smart shortcuts for managing time and mental load
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