Prompting is writing a spec: the words you add are the product

Lesson 1 of talking to it well: the single biggest upgrade to your vibe coding is treating a prompt as a spec. Watch the same request go from vague…

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Sam Ortega · Build Editor

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A prompt is a spec: what you write down, the model doesn't have to guess

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Vague, specific and constrained versions of one ask produce very different results

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Adding what it should do, must not do, and "done" looks like is most of the quality

What this means for your app

Before you send a build request, add the three things a colleague would ask: what exactly it should do, what it must not do, and what "done" looks like. "A signup box" becomes "a signup box that…

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