10 Prompt Engineering Mistakes You Are Making (and How to Fix Each One)

If you use ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini regularly, your prompts probably follow the same pattern: vague instruction, mediocre output, frustration, try again. I built a free tool that roasts your prompts - tells you exactly what is wrong and how to fix it. But before you try it, here are the 10 most common prompt mistakes I found after analyzing hundreds of prompts. 1. The Naked Command Bad: "Write me a blog post about AI" Why it fails: No role, no context, no audience, no format, no length, no tone. You gave the AI nothing to work with. It will give you nothing back.