📝 Stop Confusing ChatGPT: Use the Prompt Edit Trick

Sep '25 (edited) • 🙌 Chat

Ever go back-and-forth with ChatGPT, adding more and more clarifications… until the poor thing is confused and your output is worse than where you started? 🙃

There’s a smarter way: the Prompt Edit technique

Here’s how it works:

1️⃣ Write your first (basic) prompt. Example: “Write a short summary of our new product feature.”

2️⃣ Run it. Look at the output. Meh.

3️⃣ Instead of explaining in the thread → go back, click 📝 (pencil icon), Edit message, and refine the original prompt:

“Write a short summary of our new product feature for our Q4 launch deck. Audience is internal, non-technical stakeholders. Tone: clear and confident.”

4️⃣ Run it again. Notice how the output is sharper, cleaner, and more on target.

💡 When to use Prompt Edit:

✔️ Trying different prompt styles

✔️ Experimenting with tone

✔️ Refining an output for side-by-side comparisons

✔️ Testing the difference between garbage vs. CRISP prompts (👀 looking at you, GIGO 😅)

Credit: 100 School 🙌.

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