This one reframes what prompting actually is. Vote below, then fill in the blank in the comments: Before this, I thought prompting was ___. Now I think it is ___.

Many years as a mainframe administrator of an Application called ViewDirect, flat files, pointer indexes, report layouts. Started Cliff's Notes course a couple of months back. When he talked about structure over tools, it clicked immediately. I was heading down in our project and busted up my back and my elbow, so I was kind of immobilised for the last couple of weeks. I watched a half dozen of Jake's videos and was really excited. I started building it out like I was building that report warehouse again. Not the right way. Now that I've gone back and read some of the course, it's a start. Here's a quick 12-minute (the Creative side background in tech, but what came out of it) fly-through of my vault operating as generative infrastructure. This view just showed that I'm very happy to be in the group. I really brought my mainframe experience up to date with the current technology. I felt I was lagging a month ago, two months ago, even after investing a pretty couple of years into it. The vault isn't just storage; the agents kind of came out of it, building it (Merlin & Sarah from building the vault). Stock Obsidian. No plugins. Just folders and markdown, working like flat files always did. Last, this weekend I should say, a friend and I created a quick story in an hour. We have other AI rapper programs from other groups that we use. They have a lot of genre outlines in them, just for brainstorming a story, and we sat down and did this. Then, after my friend left, added the creative content to the Vault. What happen for me was an incredible workflow. Something I'd been wanting to do for a couple of years emerged from the Vault, and here's what it is. I left a little bit at the end of this. You can just quit after a couple of minutes to see it evolve, but I left the creative process that came out this weekend in the video in there just as an example. Current constraints for me are that I see why we need a vault and what they can do. The limiting aspect seems to be the input. This is the same as we had in the old days of mainframes. You have to be able to manage your queues. I just wanted to simply update files and move things around quickly.