My AI art prompt felt like a lottery until I wrote specs like a job posting

Xena Bailey · 2026-09-06T09:30:04.358503+00:00

I spent like 2 months typing vague phrases like 'cyberpunk cat' and getting random results, then last Tuesday I wrote a 4 line prompt with camera angle, lighting, and color palette specs after watching a dev video on prompt engineering. Suddenly every output looked close to what I pictured, and it hit me that I was treating the AI like a mind reader instead of a contractor. Anyone else have that click moment where they realized they had to be painfully specific to get usable stuff?

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