Seven prompts worth keeping
These are the ones people rewrite most. Copy them, change them, keep them somewhere you can find them again.
Updated September 2026
Nothing here is clever. That is the point. Each one is a prompt people retype every week because the version that worked is somewhere behind four hundred conversations.
- 01Rewrite this so it sounds like me, not like AI.
- 02Explain what actually causes this error, not how to silence it.
- 03Turn this thread into decisions and owners.
- 04Review this like a senior engineer who has to maintain it.
- 05Give me five options, ranked, with the tradeoff for each.
- 06Turn these notes into a draft I can edit, not a finished piece.
- 07Ask me questions until you have enough to write this properly.
Why you keep rewriting them
You did not write these seven times because you forgot how. You wrote them seven times because version six was in a chat log, sorted by date, sitting next to a question about a typo.
Seven prompts, five rewrites each, is thirty five first drafts of things you had already finished once.
The fix is not writing better prompts. You already write good ones. The fix is being able to reach the one you wrote on Tuesday.