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Which is why so many people want to see the prompt that generated the text.

Because the prompt is the quintessence of intent regarding the information to be conveyed.

I always have a strong hunch that it would be vastly more efficient if they just sent me whatever the prompt was, rather than the output. If you blow 2-3 sentences of intentional information up into a verbose e-mail, you're needlessly wasting both your and my time. Just send me the 2-3 sentences of actual stuff!

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