Prompting forces experts to regress. It demands explicit articulation. It forces a master surgeon to describe every cut to a robot that has never held a scalpel. You are forced to convert your high-speed procedural intuition into slow, clunky declarative sentences.
This is why prompting can feel "cognitively diminishing" to a seasoned creative.
Raghav Agrawal
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