France: Paste prompts as Markdown to preserve structure when prompting LLMs
Steph France · How to Use AI to Find a $1M Idea [Reddit, Claude] · Jun 4, 2025 · at 3:17
Growth marketer Steph France explains AI prompt engineering best practices to Pat Walls on Starter Story.
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“Markdown is a language that needs to be used as much as possible when we talk with LLM. So instead of just copy and paste, it works as well. But it's really better if we copy as markdown, so we keep the structure of the prompt.”
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