Effective AI Communication
Claude responds to clarity and structure. The patterns that make a prompt land, and the ones that make it wander.
Principle
Treat Claude like a senior colleague, not a search engine.
Techniques
- Provide context before asking questions
- Share examples of desired output
- Ask Claude to explain its reasoning
Further reading
- "The Voice in the Gap" — what the first message you send to a model actually establishes.
- Prompt Engineering 101 — clarity, structure, and constraint as the three levers that shape every reply.