A drill for naming
Prompt skill is not a vibe. It is a glossary that gets shorter. Four steps you can do today.
- 1.0
Write nouns before sentences
Open a note. Objects and verbs only: task, owner, due date, mark done. If you cannot fill four lines, you are not ready to ask the model. If you can, those four lines are the first paragraph of the prompt.
- 2.0
If you cannot name it, steal a label
Open the nearest product. Words on the settings page, the empty state, the error bar — those names have already been through review. Copy them. Do not translate them into friendlier speech. The model recognises the label.
- 3.0
Accept one name per round
Do not ask for debounce, permissions, and dark mode in one turn. Pick a noun, finish it, read the diff. Several nouns at once come back as a platter of neighbouring implementations.
- 4.0
File the counter-question
The model asks, “Do you mean webhook?” Copy the word into your own list, even if you do not use it this round. The gap between outsider and fluent is often the thickness of that list.
A beginning you can copy
Replace the brackets. Do not polish.
This is CRUD for (object). Fields: (list them) Who can read and write: only (who). Changing the URL must not leak a row. Empty state: (one sentence + one button) Lists load with a skeleton, not a spinner. Delete is undoable. MVP only: no notifications, no points, no dark mode.
The post said that with the proper noun, one sentence is enough. The drill does not end in prettier speech. It ends when the name is inside the sentence.