Stop Letting AI Improvise: Templates, Skills, and the Discipline of Pre-Made Decisions

Published on 01.05.2026

AI & AGENTS

Stop Letting AI Improvise

TLDR: If your AI output keeps drifting off brand, the problem usually is not the model. It is that you are asking it to make decisions you never actually made yourself. TechTiff's piece, drawing on a conversation with Adobe Express SVP Govind Balakrishnan at Adobe Summit, makes the case for templates with locked fields plus reusable Claude Skills as the structure that turns AI from an improviser into an executor.

https://techtiff.substack.com/p/adobe-express-ai-templates