What the best AI users know about prompting (that everyone else misses)

Don't be a prompt engineer. Just be someone who thinks strategically about how they use AI.

There are a lot of myths about AI that have been injected into the proverbial universe. One of those is that using it well requires some elite understanding of "prompt engineering". With the insinuation being that getting good outputs is about memorizing secret syntax or structures or frameworks or rules.

But the reality? AI doesn’t reward you for perfe…