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Let’s be honest… most of what’s being said about AI and creativity right now is either breathless hype or empty fear. Neither is useful.

Here’s what’s actually happening. AI is forcing clarity. On our taste. Our pace. Our ability to decide what matters and what doesn’t.

The prompt isn’t the input box. It’s how we work. How we think. What we ignore.
Behavior is the real interface.

If you’re still thinking the edge comes from clever wording or the right string of tokens, you’re missing the point. The edge comes from how well our system, our taste, our instinct, our discipline, can shape the machine. AI learns by watching us. It learns what good looks like. Or what mediocre settles for.

Good ideas used to be fragile. A spark, a pitch, a moment. Now they need to be systems. Alive. Iterative. Trained. Our sensibility becomes a feedback loop. Our POV becomes infrastructure.

That’s the shift: the idea isn’t the hero anymore. We are. But only if we know what you’re doing and why.

We’re not feeding AI. We’re educating it.
Not with prompts. With choices. With rhythm. With bold, consistent creative behavior.

So the real question isn’t “how do you prompt better?”

It’s… what is your behavior teaching the machine to become?

That’s where the edge lives.

Learn more about Craig Elimeliah and Code and Theory here.