Beyond Prompts (Director's Cut)

In the last month or so, I’ve been busy giving presentations on AI-ready content and thought I’d share the “director’s cut,” which includes things I cut out for time in my last presentation at SIGDOC. In these presentations, I move beyond the basics of prompting to discuss what comes next in our evolving relationship with AI systems. This presentation captures where my work has been heading over the past year—from the structured prompting techniques we’ve explored in PromptOps to something much more fundamental: how we architect knowledge itself for human-machine collaboration.The prompt hasn’t disappeared—it’s expanded to encompass entire knowledge systems.While casual users may not need sophisticated prompt techniques, the principles that made structured prompts effective haven’t disappeared.