Tag: prompts

  • GPT-6 Astra prompting: what to write and what to cut

    GPT-6 Astra doesn’t need the role-play preamble, the seventeen-rule list, or a worked example of what you want. It infers most of that. What it does need is instruction about four documented default behaviors that will otherwise fight you: how much it decides alone, how it formats output, how it resolves conflicts between your message…

  • Gemini Notebook Prompts That Work Under the New Usage Limits

    Gemini Notebook only answers from the sources you upload, and since 2 September 2026 the complexity of your prompt draws down a compute budget. Both facts make the long, rule-stacked prompts written for older models a bad trade: you pay for text that either restates a built-in guardrail or actively degrades the answer. What follows…

  • Prompting AI models to build websites: what changed in 2026

    Most of the design direction that used to go in the prompt now lives in a file the agent reads before every request. The prompt still matters, but it is the shortest-lived of the four places your decisions can sit, and the other three have changed more than it has. Where the direction lives A…