The Art of Reverse Prompting

Dev.to AI
Generative AI

A couple of years ago I had to write documentation for my team's next epic. All the ideas were in my head. POCs done, tradeoffs clear. But nothing was on paper. And the meeting was soon. Staring at a blank page, I tried something that felt a little silly at the time. Instead of telling the AI what to write, I asked it to interview me: I have a plan for the team's next epic. I have done some POCs. I would like to write some documentation about it. I need your help. Ask me 10 short questions about this which will help you help me. Ten quick answers later, the AI offered to draft the doc.