OCTOBER 16, 2025

• PromptCraft: Persona Simulation Prompts; Prompt Challenges; and How to Break Through Creative Blocks
• NewsDive: In Defense of AI Slop​
• THE HEADLINES: Apple Drops M5 for Enhanced AI Performance; Intel Steps Up Chip Game for 2026; Mozilla-Perplexity Partnership; IMF Warns Further of AI Bubble; Study Shows AI Writing Has Yet to Overwhelm the Web
• Tool Spotlight: Extrovert Uses AI to Help Sales/Marketing Teams on LinkedIn

Persona Simulation Prompts; Prompt Challenges; and How to Break Through Creative Blocks

• CASE prompt template: truth-locked persona simulation: A governance-heavy shell that simulates manic/depressive/schizoid tones with strict boundaries: drift thresholds, turn limits, auto-reversion, and fact-preservation. Built for safe, temporary style shifts in research, narrative design, and resilience testing.
• Creative Block Demolition — shipping over perfectionism: A detailed coach-style prompt that surfaces personal blockers (perfectionism, fear, overthinking) and builds routines for idea capture, rough-draft permission, feedback loops, and iteration. The goal: consistent output without sacrificing energy or standards.
• LunaPrompts — LeetCode-style prompt challenges: A hands-on practice platform with structured challenges and instant feedback to improve prompt engineering. Useful for testing variations, building repeatable patterns, and benchmarking techniques like chain-of-thought or task decomposition across realistic tasks.
• Clarity over stacked frameworks in prompt design: Argues for modular, reusable prompt systems that define core behavior once and plug in tone/format/context as variables. Reduces brittleness from “act-as + CoT + meta-layers” stacks and improves reliability through clear fixed versus flexible instructions.

In Defense of AI Slop: 3 Reasons We Need More AI-Generated Content, Not Less

Enough people have shared obviously AI-generated stuff with me without realizing it that I know one person‘s AI slop is another’s quality content.

The definition of AI slop varies by person, and it's usually contingent on how much of it the creator has been exposed to.

My definition: when the “tells” overshadow the value.

See, I am perfectly OK with AI-generated content if it’s teaching or entertaining me more than it's calling attention to itself.

There are tons of videos on Sora that I find amusing, for instance. I know damn well they're fake, but I can tell there’s creativity behind it. I don’t mind a little artificial intrusion on my sacred reality if creativity outweighs the artificiality.

Others feel differently.

I’m pretty sure there isn’t a single artist in Hollywood eager to welcome Tilly Norwood with open arms (except, perhaps, Ryan Reynolds).

But I think all of us can agree that the value of AI content is in the eye of the beholder.

One thing is certain. Whether you like it or not, there’s exponentially more AI slop than there was two years ago, and it’s quickly outpacing the human-generated work online. That just happens when you have 800 million people creating it every week.

With that said, there are telltale signs that’ll take you out of the immersive content experience when you see them:

• Images and Videos: sped-up dialogue and events to compress a piece of content into 8- or 10-second bursts (looking at you, Veo 3 and Sora 2, respectively); inconsistent characters, character behaviors, and other elements; failure to accurately capture details like physics, hands, and any writing that might appear in the background; illogical situations or camera views.
• Writing: “it’s not (just) this; it’s that”; words like "underscores, delves, game-changer, deep dive," etc.; — (need I say more?); also, “but here’s the twist” and other heavy-handed redirection callouts; starting every sentence with a subordinate clause ("When calling for assistance,"); long paragraphs; a reference link after every sentence; overdoing any one thing that might otherwise seem human and conversational (think: an entire blog or social media post comprised of one-sentence paragraphs); and basically, an inability to understand the natural rhythms of human expression.

All of these things make me cringe in some way and draw me away from the content. Even so, I’m glad people use AI, even AI slop, as a means of expression. I’d even argue we could use more of it. Here’s where I see the value.

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HIGHLIGHTS: Apple Drops M5 for Enhanced AI Performance; Intel Steps Up Chip Game for 2026; Mozilla-Perplexity Partnership; IMF Warns Further of AI Bubble; Study Shows AI Writing Has Yet to Overwhelm the Web

1. Apple unleashes M5, the next big leap in AI performance for Apple silicon
2. Intel signals return to AI race with new chip to launch next year
3. AI bots wrote and reviewed all papers at this conference
4. How GitHub Copilot and AI agents are saving legacy systems
5. Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
6. How Nvidia is helping a startup meet the global demand for AI deployment
7. Mozilla’s Firefox adds Perplexity’s AI answer engine as a new search option
8. IMF says AI investment bubble could burst, comparable to dot-com bubble
9. AI users sue Microsoft in antitrust class action over OpenAI deal
10. Oracle to offer cloud services using AMD’s upcoming AI chips
11. Exclusive: AI writing hasn’t overwhelmed the web yet
12. Citigroup’s AI usage frees up 100,000 hours for developers a week
13. Foundations want to curb AI developers’ influence with $500M for human needs
14. UK’s Nscale to supply Microsoft with 200,000 Nvidia AI chips
15. AI-powered makeup in Google Meet
16. ‘Sovereign AI’ Has Become a New Front in the US-China Tech War
17. Exclusive: AI writing hasn’t overwhelmed the web yet

Extrovert Uses AI to Help Sales/Marketing Teams on LinkedIn

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