Prompt Engineering

AI Image Prompt Guide: How to Write Prompts That Actually Work

The difference between a mediocre and exceptional AI image comes down to prompt structure. This guide covers style modifiers, camera terms, lighting, composition, and model-specific syntax for DALL-E, Midjourney, and Flux.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

March 12, 2026 · 12 min

Prompt Engineering

Why Your AI Responses Are Inconsistent (And How to Fix It)

Temperature, top-p sampling, and prompt sensitivity cause AI outputs to vary significantly between runs. Understanding these parameters (and how to control them) makes your AI workflows dramatically more reliable.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

November 24, 2025 · 9 min

Prompt Engineering

The Best System Prompts for Common AI Use Cases

A curated library of proven system prompts for writing, coding, research, customer service, analysis, and more, tested across GPT-4o, Claude, and Gemini with measurable quality improvements.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

November 16, 2025 · 11 min

Prompt Engineering

How to Write Prompts for Reasoning Models (o3, Gemini Thinking, Claude Extended)

Reasoning models respond differently to prompts than standard models. Vague questions waste expensive thinking tokens. This guide shows you how to frame problems to get the most out of extended reasoning.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

November 8, 2025 · 10 min

Prompt Engineering

Model-Specific Prompting: How to Get the Best Results from Claude, GPT, and Gemini

Each major AI model has quirks, preferences, and response patterns that differ from the others. These model-specific prompting techniques (with before/after examples) get significantly better outputs from each.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

October 31, 2025 · 12 min

Prompt Engineering

Prompt Engineering Fundamentals: A Practical Guide for 2025

The prompts that worked in 2023 are different from what works today. This guide covers the core techniques (role prompting, chain-of-thought, few-shot examples, and more) with examples tested across 10+ models.

Travis Johnson

Travis Johnson

April 1, 2025 · 15 min

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