A GitHub repository once reflected much of a programmer’s intellectual effort. Today, AI may write much of the code, while the human contribution happens behind the scenes: defining the architecture, setting constraints, catching mistakes, and steering countless iterations.
As programmers, we want that effort and direction recorded. We want to show that a project was not created from a single simplistic prompt.
Our AI projects could maintain a chronological PROMPT_SOURCE.md containing the prompts, follow-ups, corrections, attachments, and results of each interaction.
The code shows what was built. The prompt history shows why it was built that way and how the programmer directed the process. It becomes both an archive of that contribution and a record others can examine to understand the work and the decisions behind the final result.
Would you want your projects to have a prompt history, or is it just glorified logging?
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