CraftMar 18, 2026· 8 min read
Prompting as a craft, not a checklist
Why prompt 'best practices' often hurt. Eight habits that hold up across models, releases, and resets.
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Devi Kapoor
Writing for Flixy
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Treat the prompt like the spec. If you can't read it back to a new teammate and have them produce the right output, the agent won't either.
Cut the meta-instructions. 'Be helpful, be concise, be accurate' is not a prompt — it's a hope. Pick one outcome and write it as a sentence.
Version your prompts the way you'd version code. Date them. Diff them. Keep the failures next to the wins.