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Do people still bother writing detailed prompts?

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Something I’ve been wondering about lately: When you use ChatGPT or Claude, do you actually write detailed prompts, or have you mostly moved toward just talking to it like a person? I feel like there are two very different ways of using these tools. One is: "Here's the context, here's exactly what…

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  1. 2026-08-19 19:25 · r/PromptEngineering
    Do people still bother writing detailed prompts?

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