AI doesn’t do your job · Maxime Bodereau
Don’t Make Me
Prompt
A book for taking back control of creative work with AI: separate the ingredients, make decisions visible, and produce deliverables that hold up.
Selected excerpts. Not a summary in disguise.
The average
AI is a machine for averages.
AI predicts what is most likely, which means what is most common. The designer’s job is knowing when to take the average and when to refuse it.
The method
Separate. Recombine.
Style on one side. Light on the other. Material kept separate again. You can recombine them instead of rerunning the machine and praying.
The deliverable
A generated image is an output.
A deliverable is an image that knows where it is going: the right ratio, a coherent series, and a clear place in the workflow.
Who it’s for
For using AI without turning your work into a lottery.
Don’t Make Me Prompt is for professionals who want AI in their work without depending on a magic sentence or a result they cannot reproduce.
The machine readily produces the average. The designer keeps the structure, comparison, and decision. Separating the ingredients lets you recombine a direction.
The rest is in the book
You’ve read enough to know
whether you want to continue.
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