Lex Fridman just gave one of the strangest AI prompting tips I have heard:
Write prompts like poetry.
When you give an AI extremely detailed instructions, it listens too carefully.
It follows every step.
It preserves every assumption.
It solves the problem through the exact route you described, even when a better route exists.
Lex calls the alternative strategic ambiguity.
Explain the idea.
Describe the feeling, style, or result you want.
Give the AI enough direction to understand your taste, but leave enough space for it to interpret and create.
A love poem does not become powerful by explaining every emotion like an instruction manual.
The meaning lives partly in what the writer leaves unsaid.
Prompting can work the same way.
This is not how you should handle facts, security, or tasks where precision matters.
But for design, writing, and creative programming, more instructions can produce less intelligence.
The strongest prompt may not be the longest.
It may be the one that leaves the right thing unsaid.
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