When I'm encountering some WoT like that, I'd like to have a button like "view source", but for "view prompt".
Most ai generated messages or docs are unnecessarily verbose and just reading the prompt would suffice. I don't really get why some people seem to think that it's somehow better to have their bullet point prompt as a huge text.
It just wastes my time. And probably only makes it look like it took more effort than it actually did (it may be the exact opposite).
> I don't really get why some people seem to think that it's somehow better to have their bullet point prompt as a huge text.
Simple: It looks like you did more work.
Before everyone had ChatGPT, a long document meant that someone sat at their computer and invested more effort than someone rattling off a list of partially formed bullet points. In the process of writing the doc they usually refined the idea.
Now anyone can dump the bullet points into ChatGPT and get and expand them into a document which gives the illusion of being well thought out. They can now occupy the same space as everyone who was doing a lot of work in the past, but without having to do the work.
That's only going to work until people start absorb the fact that you can now generate unlimited amounts of grammatical text for free. Shouldn't be long now.
> ...probably only makes it look like it took more effort than it actually did
I think you've hit on why people would do this in a work environment. It's a low-effort way of looking like they're engaged at work and know what they're talking about.
I suspect that, too. But to me, it signals the exact opposite.
> I don't really get why some people seem to think that it's somehow better to have their bullet point prompt as a huge text
Probably people who have never wanted to put the required thinking effort in a simple, structured response to a question, and now think that "a lot of words" magically solves that skill issue.
I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time...
While Blaise Pascal, he of triangle and foundations of evil, may have indeed written something like that--though probably in 1600s French--it is almost certain that he did have the time. he just so not want to use it to edit his letter to be shorter.
The question before is now is now is whether the letter contains any quotable quotes that have survived 400 years other than his critique of style.
We intuitively think large documents show significant thought.
I don't just mean the readers.
The generators of slop often think this is useful.
Things have changed.
Our intuition has not.
"WoT"
hmm.. Wheel of Time? never got into those books personally
Wall of Text.
Both being infamously long
It is too bad that neither Unhinged or Unglued had a proper Wall of Text card.
Thanks!
Wide open Throttle. Aka puttin the pedal to the metal, or twisting the throttle to the max on a bike, or pressing the lever as far is it will go on a jetski/quad.
Just, pull your braid and smooth your skirt for a few times, and you'll get into the spirit of them.
>I don't really get why some people seem to think that it's somehow better to have their bullet point prompt as a huge text.
Because they want to mislead you.
I just want a ”report to HR” button. Someone is actively inhibiting their coworkers’ ability to work.
HR isn’t there to protect or help or serve employees.
Except often the prompt is just the previous comment. In the example, the prompt would be "Should we use Redis or Memcached?"
In that case, there is nothing beneficial about the prompt, but the answer could be boiled down to a useful recommendation (from an AI, not a person).
In that case I still want to see exactly this prompt. Then I know that the person didn't even think about my question thoug I asked _them_ for their opinion and I could have asked ChatGPT myself (and already probably have).
I mean, you can just point your LLM at the wall of text and ask it to dream up with the prompt that made that. Or ask it to summarize into a TLDR.