This article first appeared on Medium: https://medium.com/@r3dtuxedo/stop-asking-your-ai-for-more-ask-it-to-go-deeper-3090bce87009

How four questions from Felix Rieseberg rewired the way I prompt, and what the internet thinks of them

There’s a particular kind of disappointment every engineer who works with AI agents knows well.

You ask for something. The agent delivers. It’s fine. It’s formatted, polite, and plausible, and it’s about as useful as a weather report for a city you’re not in. So you do what everyone does: you ask for more . “Be more detailed.” “Go deeper.” “Add edge cases.”

And the agent obliges. The answer gets longer. It gets more headings and more bullet points. If you’re unlucky, it gets a table. Somewhere around the third iteration you realize you’ve asked for depth and received volume.

I did this for the better part of a year. Then, last week, I read an essay that named the mistake in one sentence.

The sentence

Felix Rieseberg works on Claude at Anthropic.…