When prompting goes wrong… and what we can learn.

Written By Derry Birkett

In the spirit of oversharing and being human I paste here for all to see a poor UX designer’s (me) working struggles with AI prompting for building apps and automation. In this video my goal was to set up a basic JSON n8n workflow from Cursor - this fails… BUT we did get a ton of learnings on how far prompting for apps can go with an INSANE architecture setup… big learnings… so big win for me.

From failing to specify certain parameters the AI Agent went “rogue” but in a good way: explicit documentation and architecture for development; changelogs and shell scripts for extensive testing. Watch the video to see it live!

Onward!

Derry Birkett

Hi, I’m Derry, a UX Design Lead & Manager with over 20 years experience. My mission: improve the User Experience (UX) of products and delight users.

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