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Better prompts. Better AI results.

Tutorials, comparisons, and frameworks to write better prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Midjourney, Veo3 and Kling.

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Image·17 min

4K Image Workflows with Nano Banana Pro

Nano Banana Pro and Nano Banana 2 genuinely output 4K, but the Gemini app caps downloads at 2K. The 4K workflow: pixel table, DPI math for print, and 26 copy-paste prompts for large-format work.

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Engineering·16 min

Fabric, Fur and Hair: Texture Prompting That Works

Fabric, fur and human hair each fail differently in AI images — weave, drape, sheen, strand separation. Material-by-material fixes, an honest failure sort, and 25+ copy-paste prompts.

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Engineering·20 min

Prompting for Comments and Docstrings

A docstring documents an interface; a comment explains a decision. 27 copy-paste prompts for why-comments built from what only you know, plus audits for restate-the-code noise.

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Image·13 min

Image Size and Megapixel Settings by Model (2026)

Checked against each vendor's own spec on Sep 2, 2026: Midjourney's default is 1024px SD, not 2048. FLUX.2 caps at 4MP, Ideogram's resolution list shrank from 69 presets to 38.

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Engineering·14 min

Running a Weekly Review with AI

How to run a weekly review with AI: two copy-paste templates, a cadence that actually sticks, and the honest limits on what a model can infer about your week.

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Image·11 min

Hands, Faces and Text: Fixing AI's Classic Failures

The AI image hands problem is mostly a 2023 story now. What's genuinely solved on today's models, what still breaks, and the three-way fix for each failure.

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ChatGPT·12 min

How to Control Tone in AI Writing

A nine-tone side-by-side demo, three techniques that change AI writing's register, and an honest look at Prompt Architects' Tone Selector, including where its pricing page contradicts itself.

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ChatGPT·14 min

Claude Projects: Prompting with Project Knowledge

Claude Projects prompting verified against Anthropic's live docs: what project knowledge is, how RAG changes it, two live self-contradictions, and how project memory is a separate system.

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ChatGPT·12 min

Multi-Modal Prompting with Gemini (Image, Video, Audio In)

Gemini spans a consumer app, AI Studio, an API, and Vertex, and they take different files, limits, and even field names. What each surface actually accepts, and where they quietly disagree.

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Engineering·12 min

Why Do I Keep Hitting Rate Limits?

RPM, TPM, RPD, spend caps and tier ladders differ by vendor. The structure behind your 429s — verified against OpenAI, Anthropic and Google's own docs, September 2026.

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Engineering·13 min

Max Tokens vs Max Output Tokens

OpenAI, Anthropic and Google each name and define the output-token ceiling differently, and reasoning tokens count against it on two of the three. Verified live, September 2026.

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Video·13 min

Aspect Ratio Reference for Every AI Model (Image and Video)

Checked against each vendor's own docs, Sep 3 2026: Gemini's aspect ratio enums differ between its API guide and Vertex model card; FLUX takes a free-text range; GPT Image 2 has no ratio field.

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Video·14 min

Resolution Settings for AI Video (Native vs. Upscaled, 2026)

Generation resolution vs delivery resolution across Veo, Sora, Kling, Seedance, Runway, MiniMax, Wan, Luma and Grok Imagine: exact enum strings, case sensitivity, upscale endpoints, and cost.

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ChatGPT·13 min

How to Prompt GLM Models

GLM prompting verified against Z.ai's own docs: the current model (not GLM-5.2), forced reasoning in GLM-5.3, sampling defaults, and how GLM prompting actually differs from generic prompting.

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Engineering·11 min

Delimiters and Separators in Prompts (Why They Matter)

What OpenAI's Model Spec and GPT-4.1 guide say about Markdown, XML, and JSON delimiters, why triple quotes are folklore not documentation, and how formatting doubles as injection defense.

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Engineering·11 min

How to Tell Which Prompts Are Worth Saving

A four-question test for deciding which prompts are worth saving to a library, plus an honest look at what's actually free versus paid for storing them.

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Engineering·12 min

20 Global Variables to Set Up Today

20 genuinely useful AI prompt variables to set up in Prompt Architects' Global Variables feature today, how the {{syntax}} works, and what to never store in one.

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Engineering·12 min

Why Does My JSON Output Keep Breaking?

Trailing commas and code fences are symptoms. The real causes, verified against OpenAI, Anthropic and Google's docs: missing schema enforcement, mid-generation truncation, and drift over long lists.

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Engineering·11 min

Frequency and Presence Penalty Explained

OpenAI's frequency_penalty and presence_penalty, verified against the API reference: ranges, defaults, Gemini's binary version, and why Anthropic and reasoning models don't expose them the same way.

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Engineering·11 min

Building a Morning AI Routine (15 Minutes)

Build an AI daily routine in 15 minutes: four paste-in templates, a minute-by-minute structure, and what your assistant can't do without you.

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Image·12 min

Prompting Gemini for Image Generation (Nano Banana Pro)

Gemini image generation spans four Nano Banana models across four surfaces. How to choose a model, what changes between the Gemini app, AI Studio, the API and Vertex, and how to prompt any of them.

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Engineering·13 min

Using MCP with Codex and Codex CLI

Codex and Codex CLI store MCP servers in config.toml, not mcp.json. The exact keys for stdio and Streamable HTTP servers, codex mcp add, OAuth vs bearer tokens, and what's spec vs Codex-only.

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Image·15 min

Stable Diffusion Samplers: The Complete Reference (2026)

Every Stable Diffusion sampler across AUTOMATIC1111, ComfyUI and diffusers, cross-referenced by name. The sampler and the scheduler are two separate settings, not one dropdown.

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ChatGPT·14 min

Prompting Gemini Live and Voice Mode

Gemini Live names two different products, a consumer voice feature and a developer API, with different capabilities. What changes when you prompt by voice: formatting, interruption, latency, length.

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