Building an AI application is becoming trivial and fast ("under 10 minutes"). The true differentiator and the most difficult part is embedding deep domain knowledge into the prompts. The AI needs to be taught *what* to look for, which requires human expertise in that specific field.
People struggle with AI prompts because the model lacks background on their goals and progress. The solution is 'Context Engineering': creating an environment where the AI continuously accumulates user-specific information, materials, and intent, reducing the need for constant prompt tweaking.
Simply offering the latest model is no longer a competitive advantage. True value is created in the system built around the model—the system prompts, tools, and overall scaffolding. This 'harness' is what optimizes a model's performance for specific tasks and delivers a superior user experience.
The ability to effectively communicate with AI models through prompting is becoming a core competency for all roles. Excelling at prompt engineering is a key differentiator, enabling individuals to enhance their creativity, collaboration, and overall effectiveness, regardless of their technical background.
The challenge in using AI effectively is often prompt engineering, not model capability. A potential solution is a social platform where users can follow experts, discover their prompts, and be 'catalyzed' by others' creativity. This democratizes access to AI's full potential beyond one's own ingenuity.
Instead of asking an AI to directly build something, the more effective approach is to instruct it on *how* to solve the problem: gather references, identify best-in-class libraries, and create a framework before implementation. This means working one level of abstraction higher than the code itself.
The early focus on crafting the perfect prompt is obsolete. Sophisticated AI interaction is now about 'context engineering': architecting the entire environment by providing models with the right tools, data, and retrieval mechanisms to guide their reasoning process effectively.
AI can generate hundreds of statistically novel ideas in seconds, but they lack context and feasibility. The bottleneck isn't a lack of ideas, but a lack of *good* ideas. Humans excel at filtering this volume through the lens of experience and strategic value, steering raw output toward a genuinely useful solution.
Simply using one-sentence AI queries is insufficient. The marketers who will excel are those who master 'prompt engineering'—the ability to provide AI tools with detailed context, examples, and specific instructions to generate high-quality, nuanced output.
AI tools like LLMs thrive on large, structured datasets. In manufacturing, critical information is often unstructured 'tribal knowledge' in workers' heads. Dirac’s strategy is to first build a software layer that captures and organizes this human expertise, creating the necessary context for AI to then analyze and add value.
The most effective way to build a powerful automation prompt is to interview a human expert, document their step-by-step process and decision criteria, and translate that knowledge directly into the AI's instructions. Don't invent; document and translate.