I started treating AI image prompts more like small test cases, and the results became much easier to understand.
Before that, my workflow was messy. I would write one long request, change three things at once, regenerate, and then forget which part actually improved the image. It felt creative for about five minutes. After that, it felt like debugging without logs.
The change was not complicated. I separated the visual idea from the prompt text. First I collected a reference. Then I described the reference. Then I changed only one part of the description at a time.
That sounds obvious, but it changed the way I worked.
The Problem With One-Shot Prompts
