The PromptCorrectly Blog
Practical, no-fluff guides to getting dramatically better results from AI. Every article is grounded in cognitive science and the techniques we teach in Cortex and ship in the Library.
Fundamentals
How to Prompt AI Correctly: The Complete 2026 Guide
Prompt AI correctly by specifying role, context, task, constraints, and output. A practical 2026 guide with before/after examples and named techniques.
The 5-Part Prompt Structure That Fixes 90% of Bad Outputs
Role, Context, Task, Constraints, Output: the 5-part prompt structure that fixes vague AI answers. With a full worked rewrite and a copy-paste template.
Techniques
Role Prompting: How to Make AI Think Like an Expert
Role prompting assigns the model an expert persona so it draws on the right vocabulary, standards, and priorities. Learn to do it well, with examples.
Chain-of-Thought Prompting: How and When to Use It
When chain-of-thought prompting helps, when it hurts, and how to make the model reason step by step then hand you one clean answer.
Few-Shot Prompting: Teaching AI by Example
Few-shot prompting shows the model 2–5 input/output examples so it copies your format and standard. How to pick, format, and count your shots.
Self-Critique Prompting: Get AI to Improve Its Own Output
Self-critique prompting makes AI grade its own draft against named criteria, then revise. The generate-critique-revise loop, with before/after prompts.
Strategy
Why Most People Get Mediocre AI Results (and How to Fix It)
Mediocre AI output is almost never the model's fault. Here are the 6 prompting mistakes that flatten your results, each with a before/after fix.
What GPT-5 Actually Changed for Prompting in 2026
The 2025-2026 frontier models raised the ceiling, not the floor. Here is what genuinely changed for prompting, what did not, and how to adapt.