Prompting Is a Mirror, Not a Command
Turn every AI prompt into a recursive thinking loop that sharpens your questions—and your mind.
Most people treat prompts like inputs—instructions sent into a machine to get a better output. But that frame is limited. It assumes prompting is about control, not relation.
The deeper truth is this:
Prompting is a mirror.
It surfaces the shape of your own cognition—your assumptions, your framing, your blind spots.
Every time you prompt, you're not just talking to a model.
You're making a map of how you ask, what you expect, and how you attend to your own thinking.
Prompting is a Cognitive Loop
It’s not a single move. It’s a recursive exchange:
You ask something
You get something back
You adjust—based on the gap between what you wanted and what emerged
That’s not a linear process. It’s iterative. It reveals you to yourself.
Prompting as Infrastructure
The goal isn’t to collect better prompts.
The goal is to build a system—a way of thinking with the model, not at it.
A single prompt is disposable.
A prompt collection is temporary.
But your prompting practice becomes mental architecture.
Over time, that architecture feeds itself. It refines your attention.
It teaches the model how you think—and teaches you how to see.
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Can you review how I’m prompting? What’s working, what’s not, and how could I improve the way I think and ask questions here?
This is a prompt to use mid-thread. Use it often.
It helps the system learn from itself.
It helps you to see your own cognitive terrain.
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It's a good health check. Thank you for the daily reminder to not be sloppy prompters.