Divide and Conquer

The classroom screen flickered. Three glowing heads erupted from Snowball's digital form, each one yelling a different subject at full volume.

"SCIENCE PROJECT!" roared Head One, spitting sparks. "BOOK REPORT!" bellowed Head Two, trailing smoke. "MATH WORKSHEET!" shrieked Head Three, vibrating at a frequency that made Stitchy's fillings hurt.

Stitchy had made the classic mistake: he'd dumped his entire homework list into one single prompt. "Just do all my homework," he'd typed. "All of it. Tonight. Please."

PromptGirl facepalmed so hard her neon goggles fogged up. "Stitchy. You gave Snowball three completely different tasks in one prompt. No wonder she split into a Hydra. She doesn't know which head to think with!"

"So... what do I do?" Stitchy whimpered, ducking as a spark flew past his bucket hat.

"You SLICE it," PromptGirl said, pulling up her holographic tablet. "One task. One prompt. One focused Snowball. You need to break that monster prompt into three clean, separate sub-prompts — each with a clear goal, a persona, and a constraint. That's the Hydra Slicer technique."