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Prompticles are a new blog format that saves time for writer and reader alike by putting automated agents to work at both ends: they help draft each piece, and each piece ends with prompts you can hand straight back to one. Every prompticle has a Spark (the question, as a prompt), a Delve (the answer, most important part first), Spurs (prompts to keep going), and Marginalia (sources). The first one explains the rest, and {CF50A7} holds the instructions it was written with.
Define a blog format that fits how people read now: they skim first, verify only when it matters, and hand the next question to a language-model assistant. Name the parts, explain why each exists and what it must and must not do, and demonstrate the whole thing by writing the…
The written instructions each prompticle is produced with. A set is identified by the first six characters of the hash of its own text, so any change is a new version. To turn a spur into a new prompticle, give a model the spur together with the instructions used for that prompticle, or with your own. All versions →