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In your experience with GenAI, how has refining a prompt drastically changed the output quality?

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Sarah Philbrick
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Director, Learning Design & Development| PMI Asheville, NC, United States

With Generative AI, iteratively refining and optimizing prompts can lead to better AI-generated results. This may involve adjusting the specificity or clarity of the prompt to increase relevance and accuracy of results.

What examples do you have of how improving a prompt drastically changed the output quality?  What specific changes did you make that led to the improvement?
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Swarnika Mishra India
In use of Gen AI as beginer I have taken initial steps for what is project management and roles defined using Chat GPT free version .May later I will ready for PMP examinations.My first prompt was "Generate ten different questions about project management which would be similar in style and level of difficulty to what is asked on the PMP exam"

It only gave me the questions but neglected to provide any answers. Realizing that this was likely it interpreting what I had asked for "as is", I then added: "Generate ten different questions about project management which would be similar in style and level of difficulty to what is asked on the PMP exam".
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Swarnika Mishra India
In use of Gen AI as beginer I have taken initial steps for what is project management and roles defined using Chat GPT free version .May later I will ready for PMP examinations.My first prompt was "Generate ten different questions about project management which would be similar in style and level of difficulty to what is asked on the PMP exam"

It only gave me the questions but neglected to provide any answers. Realizing that this was likely it interpreting what I had asked for "as is", I then added: "Generate ten different questions about project management which would be similar in style and level of difficulty to what is asked on the PMP exam".
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PEDRO PARDO SEO Governance| Department for Science, Innovation and Technology Caracas, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
In my experience, refining a prompt in GenAI is a bit like tightening a spec — the clearer and more context-aware the input, the sharper and more relevant the output. A vague prompt gives you fluff; a well-structured one delivers precision. I’ve seen a small tweak turn generic waffle into something that’s practically ready for delivery
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Samuel Bagatini BU Projects Manager| Lynxeo Aerospace & Healthcare Créteil, France
By precising more the expected output, the tool normally arrive better where we want to.
Especially when the demand is quite specific, there are no ways to make the GenAI to arrive alone to the target.
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Antonio Galan Country Manager| AYESA Quito, Pichinca, Ecuador
In my experience the refining process changed drastically the quality of the output of the LLM.
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Jaymesh Shah Vadodara, Gujarat, India

The most dramatic improvements came from teaching AI to think like my stakeholders rather than like a generic consultant. When I started including stakeholder psychology, organizational culture, and specific business pressures in my prompts, AI outputs became not just accurate—they became strategically valuable.



The 10x improvement factor: Moving from generic prompts to psychologically-aware, context-rich strategic prompts didn't just make AI better—it made AI outputs superior to what I could have created manually, because AI maintained perfect consistency with all the contextual requirements I gave it.
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1 reply by Grant DeCecco
Aug 11, 2025 12:04 PM
Grant DeCecco
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Yes, this is where using a "Project" or "Custom GPT" can be very useful. You can give specific information about the situation and stakeholders as context to be used with all future prompts. This saves a lot of time and gets your replies more tailored to your needs.
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Julie Summers Wylie, Tx, United States
To me it seems like a logical process of communication. Not necessarily how we verbally communicate with each other, more descriptive, unassuming, specific.
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Julie Summers Wylie, Tx, United States
To me it seems like a logical communication process, not like we verbally communicate with each other, but more descriptive, specific, with more intent.
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Tracy Douglass
Refining my prompts populates a better outcome. More detailed and precised.
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CLAUDIO JORGE DA ROCHA CAVALCANTI PM Specialist| ITEC -AL Maceio, Alagoas, Brazil
(1) After refinements and iterations, I got better results;
(2) The changes I needed to make were to build pipelines to get better results.
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