Arrive
Enter the dining room
Tell the host what you want your AI to do. That is the order. The menu only decides how it behaves.
House method
How BON APPÉTAI works
You are not learning prompt engineering. You are ordering dinner for a very confident intern.
La carte
Choose a main
Healthy, fast, spicy, thoughtful, reckless. One plate. The rest is garnish.
Service
Sides
More evidence? Less waffle? Extra pushback? The main decides how the kitchen cooks. Sides are optional garnish.
The pass
Serve it, then taste
Copy the instructions into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or whichever model you are currently arguing with. AI can accelerate. You still make the judgement.