What Is Promptology™? Building Shared Meaning Before AI Output
- Heather Fricke
- Aug 7
- 1 min read
Promptology™ is not prompt engineering with better adjectives.
It begins with a harder problem: humans know what they mean from inside their own lives, while AI receives only the information and context that made it across the interface.
The human assumes the meaning traveled with the words. The machine reconstructs meaning from what it has. When those interpretations differ, the output can be fluent, relevant and still humanly wrong.
Promptology™ works before the output.
It is the process of exposing enough of the human meaning behind the request, testing how AI interpreted it, correcting the interpretation, and refusing to confuse semantic similarity with understanding.
The goal is not a cleverer instruction. The goal is enough shared meaning for a human and a machine to produce something useful together without flattening the human into a prompt.
Human Algorithm™ names the human logic beneath the words. Promptology™ is how more of that meaning crosses the gap and gets tested. Frick-E Energy™ is the larger human-AI collaboration territory where that exchange happens.
Created by Heather Fricke through Frick-E Energy™.
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