I've seen this come up in a few comments, so I'm just adding it to a separate one in case it helps folks.

Something I have seen a lot of people talk about in the comments here, as well as do in practice within my company and friends, family, etc., is that they say something and then let Claude or GPT rephrase it to be added as a prompt that they'll then use.

In my experience, this will almost always bring about worse results than if you communicated directly with the LLM. I believe this happens because of a few reasons.

1. LLMs tend to do word inflation in that they'll create plausible-sounding prompts, but the words that they introduce have a higher propensity to create worse cookie-cutter results from other agents, coding assistants, writing assistants, or any other form that has been used.

2. By putting a layer in between what we're saying and what the LLMs interpret, we're not honing our ability to articulate and prompt better and wholly depend on the intermediary getting better or being able to interpret better, which does not translate well in practice.

3. Anecdotal, but in my case, when I was doing this myself, it was because I assumed I was harder to understand and not articulate enough to get good results. So I tried speeding up the results by trying to use an intermediary. What I learned, though, was training myself to be articulate and to not doubt myself was easier than getting results from the LLM interpreters.

of course with anything, ymmv.