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Delete your first prompt. Seriously, the first thing you type into Claude is usually the weakest version of your idea. Most people prompt once, get an average answer, and think Claude isn't that good. But super users of Claude don't prompt Claude for the final answer. They ask Claude to build the prompt. Before you ask Claude to write, plan, or analyze anything, ask me the five questions you need answered before doing this task properly. Now Claude has context. It has your goals, your audience, your constraints, your preferences, and your examples. And suddenly the output from Claude goes from a, wait, this is actually usable? So step one is writing better prompts, it's making Claude ask better questions. That's how you stop using Claude like a chatbot and start using it as a true thinking partner.