Underprompting
Domain: Prompt Engineering
🎯 Motivation
Being too vague gives the model too much freedom, often producing generic or unhelpful responses.
📋 Concrete Example
Bad: ‘Help me with Python.’ The model doesn’t know if you want a tutorial, code fix, concept explanation, or project idea. It guesses and may miss your need entirely.
🔗 Analogy
Asking a librarian ‘I need a book’ - without genre, topic, or level, they guess randomly. You might get a children’s book or a PhD thesis. Underprompting leaves too much to chance.