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name: stop-prompting-start-configuring
description: Four setup guides. Pick the assistant you actually pay for.
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Prompting
is not the skill.
Setup is.

The diagnosis is the same everywhere. The fix depends on which assistant you're using, because the features have different names and different price tags. Pick your door.

## pick your assistant

guide 01

Claude

Free, Pro, or Max. Covers Chat, Projects, Cowork, and a beginner path into Claude Code.

  • Projects as the container for recurring work
  • Skills on every plan, including Free
  • Cowork setup and folder scoping
  • /init, CLAUDE.md, and week-one habits
open the guide → guide 02

ChatGPT Plus

Written for the $20 tier specifically, including the Codex access most Plus users never open.

  • Projects, since Skills aren't on Plus
  • When a Custom GPT is worth the effort
  • Codex skills and AGENTS.md
  • Instant vs Thinking, and your usage caps
open the guide → guide 03

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Written for the work seat your org pays for, grounded on your Microsoft Graph.

  • The Work / Web grounding toggle
  • Copilot Notebooks and Pages
  • Agents, Agent Store, and Copilot Studio
  • What the license buys over free Copilot Chat
open the guide → guide 04

Gemini for Workspace

Written for Business and Enterprise editions, where Gemini is already included.

  • The side panel and @ file grounding
  • Gems as the reusable expert
  • NotebookLM for multi-source research
  • Why there is no add-on to buy
open the guide →

## the shared diagnosis

These three fail the same way on every model. Every guide starts here.

"Write me a LinkedIn post about AI."
No context.You gave it nothing, so you got the statistical average of the internet. Everyone else got it too.
"Act as a world-class copywriter with 20 years of experience who studied under..."
Role-play is not context.It still has no idea who you are, what you ship, or what you'd reject. A costume is not a brief.
"Make it punchier."→ "No, more professional."→ "Try a different tone."
You can't describe what you want.So it keeps guessing. Twelve rewrites later you are back at draft one.
What this is not There is no email capture, no prompt library, no free PDF waiting in your inbox, and nothing here asks you to upgrade a plan. Every step in every guide uses a feature you already have. If a piece of advice about AI arrives attached to a download link, that is the product and you are the payment.

Prompting isn't dead. It got shorter. The work moved into the context it lands in.