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Prompting is a product skill
For each case in "Prompting is a product skill", name the signal and the response you would use.
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Prompting is a product skilldecompose, steer, verify
How you drive the AI is itself graded. A PM who can decompose a fuzzy idea into buildable steps and verify the output is doing the core of the job a generalist builder does here.
Decompose
Break the feature into small, checkable steps.
Give the agent one concrete task at a time.
Name the stack and constraints up front.
Steer
Read the diff before accepting it.
Reject and re-prompt when it drifts.
Point it at the specific file or function.
Verify
Run the code yourself before you trust it.
Click the demo path yourself.
Hardcode an edge if it makes the path real.