{
  "id": 12661069,
  "title": "The creator of Claude Code's prompting advice? Talk to your AI like a coworker",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/the-creator-of-claude-codes-prompting-advice-talk-to-your-ai-like-a",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-07T16:02:34.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Business Insider",
    "slug": "business-insider",
    "url": "https://www.businessinsider.com/claude-code-creator-boris-cherny-ai-prompt-advice-2026-10"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Claude Code's creator, Boris Cherny, provided three key tips for effectively communicating with AI chatbots. He emphasized that there are no secrets to prompting AI and that the days of complex, formulaic prompts are fading. In an X post, Cherny shared his three basic prompting principles: specifying what you want the AI to do, indicating the level of effort you expect, and outlining how the AI should verify its work. Cherny also shared a casual prompt he used, asking Claude to create an artifact based on a podcast episode, emphasizing the use of \"lots of tokens\" for better visuals. Notably, he included the line \"maybe add watercolor,\" which sparked a debate among users about the appropriateness of the suggestion. Cherny defended the prompt, stating that Anthropic's latest model, Opus 5.5, has good taste and trusts it to make the right artistic choices.",
  "summary": "Claude Code creator Boris Cherny said that there's \"no secret\" to prompting AI, but he shared three strategies he uses.",
  "key_points": [
    "Boris Cherny, Claude Code creator, shared three prompting tips",
    "Specify desired outcome, expected effort, verification method",
    "Casual prompt created artifact from podcast with many tokens"
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}