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Head of Design @Inflection AI • Studio Artist/Art Advocate

RTFP: Rewrite the f_____ prompt. I’m borrowing the (crude) tone from the original acronym, RTFM, just to remind myself of the state of the tech after seeing a glowing post about using Claude computer control for a brief experiment…and an agonized commenter responding about using it for a genuine problem and failing after a significant amount of time trying to get the prompts “just right” to solve the rest of it (and the new issues it created). If RTFP is the advice you get when you’re having trouble getting what you want out of an AI interface…it’s not you. It’s a reflection of how unstructured and experimental it is now. It’s not the magic box that can solve your problems as easily as it appears to solve a (non-critical) demo. It’s worth tinkering with it if you don’t get what you need immediately, if only to clarify your own thinking about what you need…but keep it focused, timebox it, and be prepared to fall back to what works for solving your problems.

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