# Lauren Tan uses Grok and a /sharpen prompt trick to describe game music

> Original title: i asked grok bot to make a video about how the music in http://tibo.dog was made! i started by clumsily describing something i wanted (i ...

- Source: Lauren Tan
- Published: 2026-11-08T06:18:36.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/h1w2ck9ghwkq82ux69y64w7dk
- Original: https://x.com/poteto/status/2119313621188849806

## Summary

Lauren Tan says she asked Grok to make a video about the music on tibo.dog, starting with no music experience and a request for Game Boy-style music that transitions between melody variations like Genshin. She says telling the bot "i lack the vocabulary to describe what i want" and using the /sharpen skill from pstack helped communicate her goal better.

## Post

i asked grok bot to make a video about how the music in http://tibo.dog was made! i started by clumsily describing something i wanted (i have 0 experience making music): gameboyish music, seamlessly transitioning between variations of a main melody like another game i had played (genshin)

one prompt i tried that helped me communicate my goal better was telling bot "i lack the vocabulary to describe what i want" and using the /sharpen skill from pstack. then the /in-your-own-words skill helped me confirm whether or not it understood what i was trying to say

i also used this same trick when making this video, so my agent produced a storyboard and animatic before working on the full thing

knowing the right words is very powerful

[Video](https://badinfluence.news/api/img-proxy?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Famplify_video_thumb%2F2119311856565391360%2Fimg%2Fa5edNvpINOvshceC.jpg&mode=thumb&exp=1794355200&sig=35136c93f1f99739)