Why Your Prompt Library Is Dead Weight

The prompts were written for tasks I no longer had. Worse, they encoded assumptions about models that had been updated twice since. A prompt tuned for last year's model is a small anchor.

What actually helps is a one-line description of the job and the shape of the output I want. I rebuild the prompt in the moment; it takes thirty seconds and fits today's model.

A library implies reuse. Most of my real prompts are one-offs for a specific file. Hoarding them is tidy but useless.

Keep principles, not paragraphs. The specifics rot faster than you think.