The prompt blog

Understanding AI

Generative AI vs. Search Engine: Each Has Its Role

A search engine finds pages, an AI writes an answer. Which tool to use for opening hours, a legal rule, a draft, or a comparison.

3 min read

AI images

AI Images and Commercial Use: What to Check

Tool license, rights in the image, trademarks, real people, transparency: what to check before using an AI image to sell.

6 min read

Getting started

Imposing a Response Format on the AI: Lists, Tables, Length

Want a short answer and the AI delivers three pages? How to set the length, the structure and a table that pastes cleanly into a spreadsheet.

4 min read

Advanced techniques

Prompt injection: understanding the risk and protecting yourself

An email, a web page, or a résumé can contain orders that the AI carries out for you. How it works, when it's serious, and the protections that help.

6 min read

AI images

Inpainting: Fix Part of an Image Without Redoing It All

A six-fingered hand, an extra object, botched text: how to mask the area and regenerate only that part, with an example prompt and the limits to know.

3 min read

Advanced techniques

Writing good instructions for an AI agent

An agent acts; it doesn't just answer. How to give it a goal, limits, and stopping conditions, with two briefs to copy.

5 min read

Advanced techniques

Custom Instructions, GPTs, and Projects: The Practical Guide

Stop repeating who you are in every conversation. What to put in custom instructions or a project, with ready-made templates.

5 min read

Getting started

Improving a Prompt Through Iteration: The Step-by-Step Method

Four rounds of correction on a real case, how to phrase each piece of feedback, when to start over and how to lock in the final prompt for reuse.

4 min read

Getting started

Prompt glossary: the words you need to know

Token, hallucination, few-shot, system prompt, RAG, agent: 35 words from the AI vocabulary explained simply, with an example and the article to read next.

6 min read

AI images

Creating a Logo With AI: What Works, What Gets in the Way

An image generator offers symbol ideas, not a finished logo. How to explore, test, have it vectorized, and check before adopting yours.

5 min read

Understanding AI

Chatbot memory: what they really remember

Within a conversation, within a project, or from one session to the next: what chatbots remember, how to control it, and what to tell them never to keep.

3 min read

Advanced techniques

Meta-prompting: have the AI write your prompts

AI can write and critique your prompts, as long as you make it ask questions first. Three prompts to copy and the flaws to fix.

5 min read