⚠️ Stop Building AI Checklists (Start Building AI Thinking)
Someone in our community posted: "Can you share your list of the best AI prompts?" This question comes up constantly. People want the checklist. The template library. The prompt collection. The shortcuts. We get why. Checklists feel productive. They feel like progress. But here's the problem: You're building the wrong thing. Why prompt libraries fail Collections of prompts seem useful until you actually try to use them. Then you discover that the prompt someone else wrote for their business doesn't quite fit yours. The tone is wrong, the context is different, or it's solving a slightly different problem than the one you actually have. So you copy it, modify it, try it, get mediocre results, and go back searching for a better prompt. You're collecting prompts instead of solving problems. We've seen this pattern repeatedly: Someone joins with a massive folder of "best AI prompts" collected from across the internet. They've spent hours organizing them by category. They're proud of their system. Three months later? They admit they rarely use them. When they actually need AI for something, the prompts in their library never quite fit. They end up writing something new anyway. What you're actually trying to accomplish When you ask for a prompt library, what you really want is: "How do I get AI to help me with this specific thing I need to do?" That's not a prompt question. That's a thinking question. The skill isn't having the right prompt. The skill is being able to look at any task and figure out how AI might help with it. That's a completely different capability than maintaining a collection of templates. The shift from checklist to thinking Instead of asking "What's the best prompt for X?" start asking "What's the outcome I need and what does AI need to know to help me get there?" Let's say you need to write an email to a client about a project delay. You could search for "client delay email prompt" and hope someone has already written one that fits your situation.