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by bobwaycott 1041 days ago
I’m not sure how one measures being a good prompter, but taking a step back, you’ve exercised and honed the skill of using language with precision to communicate ideas, requirements, and expected outcomes effectively. You can explain your ideas in a way that primes outcomes to your expected goals. When you see the outcomes aren’t aligning, you can further refine with language to correct course and steer back toward your goal.

That is a great skill to have. It’s the kind of skill that saves entire teams of product, design, and engineering folks tons of time. It’s the kind of skill that helps communicate ideas, requirements, and expectations no matter what the problem space in ways that ensure everyone is aligned, understanding, and working together. The absence of this skill usually leads to confusion, wasted effort, frustration, dissatisfaction, and other negative outcomes.

Learning skills often has a compounding effect, as well. Even if a given skill isn’t forever usable in its original form, what you learn along the way continues to pay dividends.