AI helps you iterate prompts
When you iterate prompts to AI it leaves a huge mess of changes. Human are notorious for not updating comments and the documentation. This makes life harder for the next person which perversely is often the same person. Iterative prompts with an AI can make the mess even worse. Each revised prompt gets further and further from the original. Here is a workflow that both improves the results and reduces your work now and the world of the next person.
When working with AI you give it prompts, it returns a result, you repeatedly give it refining prompts until it gives you what you want. At that point there is a mess of revisions. Try this:
- Write a Requirements document prompt and save a copy. If you use version control like Git commit add and commit this document as your first version. This is like writing the comments first.
- Use the Requirements document prompt with the AI. This is coding to match the comments.
- Review the results and interactively prompt small changes. Test driven development.
- When you have a stable result, ask the AI to generate a single prompt that to make the current result and translate it into markdown. This is the AI telling you how to talk to it. You & the AI updated the comments & documentation.
- Save the results and the new prompt Requirements document. Add and commit this to Git.
It is now easy to move forward, backwards, or even to a different AI “employee” to continue to ultimate success.
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