Define “prompt”
Define “prompt”
Posted Oct 23, 2025 10:34 UTC (Thu) by jvoss2 (guest, #7065)In reply to: Define “prompt” by Baughn
Parent article: The FSF considers large language models
I want to second this: In my opinion, requests to document "the prompt" are not practical, because there are too many small bits of prompt, some typed by the user and some from sytem prompts, tool descriptions, pre-written guidance for sub-agents etc. Even if this could somehow all be bundled together in a digestible form, it would still not be very useful, because what the LLM does also depends on the state of the file system at the time the request was made. (Example: "Please review the code in somefile.c. [LLM thinks about it and reports back] Ok, please fix the integer overflow you found by adding an explicit check near the start of the function.")
