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by acedTrex 58 days ago
Why would anyone bother doing this, prompts are not code, they are not shareable artifacts that give the same results.
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Neither are bug reports or feature requests.
bug reports should be reproducable. They may even be statistically reproduceable. A bug report that cannot be reproduced is worthless.
It is not worthless; that means you need to work on making it easier to detect and report bugs.
Do you accept bug reports that just say "it doesn't work" or do you require reproducibility?
> Why would anyone bother doing this

For the same reason a PR can be useful even if it turns out to be imperfect. Because it reduces the workload for the maintainer to implement a given feature.

Obviously that means that if it looks likely to be a net negative the maintainer isn't going to want it.

Prompts that are used to generate should thus be put in the repo.