Think → prompt → ship

Hook

Ideas stall when you jump straight to code. This lesson trains the habit: think first, prompt second, ship third.

Concept

Each beat has a job:

• Think — Name the user, the outcome, and one constraint.
• Prompt — Give role, context, constraints, and output format.
• Ship — Run, review, and share something small.

Try it

Pick a landing page for a fictional product. Ask your AI to draft copy in three sections: hero, features, CTA.

Use this starter prompt structure:

Example constraint you might add in TypeScript-flavored pseudocode:

type PromptBeat = "think" | "prompt" | "ship";
 
const beats: PromptBeat[] = ["think", "prompt", "ship"];
 
function missingBeat(done: PromptBeat[]): PromptBeat | null {
  return beats.find((beat) => !done.includes(beat)) ?? null;
}

Checkpoint

• I wrote a one-sentence problem statement before prompting
• My prompt included an output format
• I changed at least one line of AI output before calling it done

Ship artifact

Save your final hero headline — you will reuse it in a later build lesson.