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by zoogeny 409 days ago
I would politely suggest you work at getting better at this since it would be a pretty important skill in a world where a lot of creative work is done by AI.

As some have mentioned, LLMs are treasure troves of information for learning how to prompt the LLM. One thing to get over is a fear of embarrassment in what you say to the LLM. Just write a stream of consciousness to the LLM about what you want and ask it to generate a prompt based on that. "I have an image that I am trying to get an image LLM to add some clutter to. But when I ask it to do it, like I say add some stack of paper and notebooks, but it doesn't look like I want because they are neat stacks of paper. What I want is a desk that kind of looks like it has been worked at for a while by a typical office worker, like at the end of the day with a half empty coffee cup and .... ". Just ramble away and then ask the LLM to give you the best prompt. And if it doesn't work, literally go back to the same message chain and say "I tried that prompt and it was [better|worse] than before because ...".

This is one of those opportunities where life is giving you an option: give up or learn. Choose wisely.