Your AI Workflow Doesn't Need Better Prompts. It Needs Less AI.

The first stage of AI work is prompting. The last stage is removing the model from most of the workflow. That sounds backwards. It is not. When a workflow is new, the LLM is useful because the work is still ambiguous. You are discovering what good looks like. You try a prompt, read the output, adjust the examples, change the tone, add constraints, and run it again. That is a good use of AI. But if the same workflow keeps coming back, and you are still explaining it to the model every time,...