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Dan Kieft (2026-05-27, Higgsfield-sponsored) names five mistakes: (1) prompting before thinking - first fix a concept (subject, action, environment, style incl. shot/lens/camera, audio) and a storyboard: he has Claude turn an idea plus a character sheet into a six-panel storyboard prompt, renders it as one image with GPT Image 2, then has Claude convert panels into a 15-second timeline prompt with time codes, one action per shot, and a character/style block at top; (2) blindly pasting long LLM prompts - an over-detailed prompt made the model skip actions and drift the product design; use references plus a structure; (3) use systems: simple (style + action + camera), \"Se...","status":"active","body":{"text":"Creator-reported: statements attributed to the creator(s) come from discovery's reading of auto-caption transcript excerpts; the curator checked the video metadata (title, date, length) and any cited documentation pages, not the spoken claims. 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