First Sip Today’s coffee is Bones Dragonfire Coffee . Strong. Direct. No apology. Prompting an AI system is not magic. It is not luck. It is not typing vague requests and hoping for brilliance. It is engineering. If you are an IBM i developer or a technical leader, prompting is not a novelty skill. It is a force multiplier. Used well, it accelerates analysis, documentation, refactoring, testing, onboarding, and even leadership thinking. Used poorly, it produces confident nonsense. This guide is not about “AI tricks.” It is about disciplined thinking applied through prompts. Why This Guide Exists Most AI prompting guides assume: You write Python . You deploy to the cloud. Your database is disposable. Your codebase is five years old. That is not your world. You work with: ILE RPG CLLE DB2 for i Service programs Activation groups 20+ years of accumulated business logic Systems that process millions of dollars before n...