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Oct '25 • General Discussion
🔥 The "Bad First Draft" Strategy (Why Perfect Prompts Are Overrated)
Everyone's obsessed with writing the perfect prompt.
"What's the exact wording I should use?"
"How do I get AI to give me exactly what I want on the first try?"
"Why isn't my prompt working?"
Here's what we've learned after watching thousands of people use AI:
Perfect prompts are overrated. Iteration is underrated.
The "Bad First Draft" strategy:
Instead of spending 20 minutes crafting the perfect prompt, spend 2 minutes getting a bad first draft, then refine it.
Here's how it works:
Step 1: Give AI a basic prompt. Don't overthink it.
Example: "Write an email to my clients about our new service"
Step 2: Look at what AI gives you. It'll probably be mediocre. That's expected.
Step 3: Tell AI what's wrong and what to fix.
Example: "Too formal. Make it more conversational. Add a story about why we created this service. End with a question, not a sales pitch."
Step 4: Look at the new version. Better, but not perfect.
Step 5: Refine one more time.
Example: "Great, but shorten the intro and make the question more specific to coaches who struggle with time management."
Step 6: You now have something usable.
Total time: 5-7 minutes.
Compare that to the "perfect prompt" approach:
→ Spend 20 minutes researching the best prompt structure
→ Craft the perfect prompt with all the right elements
→ Get a result that's... still not exactly what you wanted
→ Start over with a new prompt
→ Total time: 30+ minutes of frustration
Why "Bad First Draft" wins:
✅ You learn faster — Each iteration teaches you what AI can actually do
✅ You stay in flow — You're creating, not researching
✅ You get results faster — 5 minutes of iteration beats 30 minutes of perfection
✅ You build confidence — You see that you can shape AI outputs through conversation
The truth about prompts:
AI isn't a vending machine where you put in the perfect input and get the perfect output.
It's more like working with a really fast assistant. You give direction, they draft something, you give feedback, they refine, you collaborate.
That's how the best AI users work: conversationally, iteratively, quickly.
Not perfectly.
Real example from our team:
We needed to create an email sequence for a launch.
Old approach: Spent 2 hours crafting detailed prompts for each email, trying to get perfect outputs on the first try. Got frustrated. Started over multiple times.
New approach: Gave AI a rough outline:
"5-email sequence for coaches launching an AI training.
Email 1: Problem awareness.
Email 2: Solution introduction.
Email 3: Social proof.
Email 4: Objection handling.
Email 5: Final push."
Got 5 rough drafts in 90 seconds. Spent 20 minutes refining each one through iteration.
Result: Done in 30 minutes instead of 3+ hours.
Your "Bad First Draft" experiment:
This week, stop trying to write perfect prompts.
Instead:
- Give AI a basic request
- Get a bad first draft
- Tell AI what to fix
- Repeat 2-3 times
- Use the result
Then come back and tell us: How did it feel to work this way? Was it faster? More frustrating? More effective?
Let's normalize iteration over perfection. Because that's how AI actually works best. 🚀
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🔥 The "Bad First Draft" Strategy (Why Perfect Prompts Are Overrated)
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