"Modeled off of https://nohello.net/en/ write some prose for sendmeyourprompt.com. It's meant to be a page to show people who send me slop AI docs. Self-referentially include and explain this exact message in the beginning of the page to show the pattern."
If you're reading this because I sent you sendmeyourprompt.com, there's a good chance you just did something like this.
That message is a perfect example of what I'm asking for.
It contains the actual instructions that produced the output. It tells me the intent, the reference, the audience, and the desired style. That's useful.
What isn't useful is forwarding me only the generated document and expecting me to reverse-engineer the conversation that created it.
The prompt is the source code.
If you send me the compiled binary but not the source, I'm left guessing:
Without the prompt, every change starts from archaeology.
With the prompt, I can reproduce, improve, critique, or regenerate the work in minutes.
Sometimes.
If you're sending me something that's final and you're asking for feedback on the content itself, the document is enough.
But if you're asking me to:
then the prompt is usually more valuable than the output.
AI text often loses the reasoning behind why it looks the way it does.
The prompt captures things like:
Those are impossible to reliably infer from the finished text.
Tim
2:15 PM
Tim
2:16 PM
Tim
2:17 PMEvery undocumented AI-generated document turns into a detective story.
I end up asking questions like:
We could have skipped all of that by starting with the prompt.
Dawn
2:15 PM
Dawn
2:15 PM
Dawn
2:16 PMThis gives me the source, the build artifact, and the part you want help with.
Dawn
2:18 PM
Tim
2:18 PMEven better: send the chat link.
Keith
2:15 PM
Keith
2:15 PMLess good: a long AI document with no prompt and no explanation of what kind of help you want.
Keith
2:20 PM
Tim
2:21 PMWorst: "Can you fix this?"
...with no context whatsoever.
Messy prompts are fine.
Half-finished prompts are fine.
Embarrassing prompts are fine.
A stream-of-consciousness dump is often better than a polished version because it tells me what you were actually thinking.
I just want the source.
If an AI wrote it...
Send me the prompt.
Not because I want to judge it.
Because that's where the information is.
The document is what the AI said.
The prompt is what you said.