Serguey Asael Shinder – IT Professional

I Throw Away the Prompt, Not the Thinking

I’ve written thousands of prompts.
I couldn’t tell you what most of them said.

They were disposable, and that’s fine.

What I kept wasn’t the wording.
It was the judgment —
knowing a good answer from a plausible one.

For a while I collected clever prompts
like they were the skill.
They weren’t. They aged out fast.

The thing that transferred
was my taste in evaluating the result.

So I stopped chasing magic phrases.
The prompt is scaffolding;
I take it down once the work stands.

The thinking is the part I keep.

– Serguey Asael Shinder