But it is not at all the same _type_ of writing. Most of the prompts I've seen and written are shorter, less organized, and most importantly not actually considered a piece of writing. When you are writing a prompt you are considering how the machine will "interpret" it and what it will spit back, you're not constructing and argument. Vagueness or dialectics in a prompt will often just confuse the machine.

Hitting the keys is not always writing.

Prompting is prewriting — which is very important and often neglected. With it, you are:

* Describing the purpose of the writing

* Defining the format of the writing

* Articulating the context

You are writing to figure out what you want.