The "first prompt feels magic, third prompt feels like work" curve

Posting this because I've watched 4 friends now hit the same wall on day 2 or 3 and quit before getting to the good part:

**Day 1**: You type a one-liner, the model gives you something genuinely playable, you feel like a wizard. Pure dopamine.

**Day 2**: You try to *fix* something specific. "Make the timer 10 seconds not 5." It works. You try "make the popcorn explode bigger on tap." It... kind of works? You start prompting like you're talking to a stubborn intern.

**Day 3**: You realize that the difference between "I made a game" and "I made *this specific* game" is mostly the craft of writing tight, falsifiable prompts. And that craft takes time. Most people quit here.

Day 7-onward is where it actually gets good. You stop prompting like you're ordering food and start prompting like you're art-directing a junior designer. "Tighten the failure feedback. Half the screen shake. Lose state should hold the final score for 800ms before submission."

Don't quit on day 3. The wall is real but it's thinner than it feels.