This as-told-to essay is based on conversations with Anna Bernstein, a 29-year-old prompt engineer at the generative-AI firm Copy.ai based in New York. The following has been edited for length and ...

Valentine's Day is here already, and you forgot to go out and buy a card ... to see the AI's "design" capabilities. It didn't sweep me off my feet. For round two, I used the Style prompt dropdown ...