David Russell Posted on May 30 Prompt Packs Are Dead. Long Live Skills # ai # promptengineering The freebie Comment "REVOPS ROCKS" and I will DM you my 350 custom prompts. You have scrolled past it a hundred times. Join my list, get a billion prompts. Comment GROWTH for the swipe file. I revolutionized RevOps, join my Slack community to get the 350 prompts that prove it. The prompts are not the product. They are the bait. Somebody wants you on a list, and a fat number does the fishing. So you comment. The DM arrives. You open the PDF, and 350 prompts read like this: Act as a RevOps leader and write a LinkedIn post about pipeline hygiene. Act as a RevOps leader and write a LinkedIn post about forecast accuracy. Act as a RevOps leader and write a LinkedIn post about lead routing. Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode Same prompt. Different noun. The author generated the whole file with AI in one sitting, using the same three formulas, so the number could carry the offer. "Custom" meant swapping the topic in a sentence. Pipeline. Forecast. Routing. Churn. Onboarding. That was not prompt engineering. That was prompt inflation. The 350-prompt swipe file is not a library. It is a mail merge with a lead-capture form bolted on. Here for the build, not the history? Skip to the actual Skill. But the history is not filler. How prompting got this brittle is the same story as how the new AI works behind the scenes. Read on and the design choices stop looking arbitrary. Acronym soup Good prompt writing came down to a few simple points. Everyone invented their own framework anyway. RTF, RACE, BFD, WTF. The real ones, roughly: RTF : Role, Task, Format. CTF : Context, Task, Format. RACE : Role, Action, Context, Expectation. CO-STAR : Context, Objective, Style, Tone, Audience, Response. CREATE : Character, Request, Examples, Adjustments, Type, Extras. Then APE, CARE, CLEAR, ICIO, and a fresh one every few weeks. Stack them and the trick shows. They rearrange the same nine ingred
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