do you need to write your own spaced repetition prompts?

There is a notion that writing your own prompts may be more beneficial than using canned ones.

There has been pushback on that idea from some serious practitioners, though. In tweet - Dwarkesh custom spaced repetition card creation tooling, person - Dwarkesh Patel feels that the process of creating the cards is often rote.

In my hacker news comment about canned prompts I detail person - Andy Matuschak and person - Michael Nielsen's evolving thoughts on the topic, where they seem to think that the process of generating high quality prompts is so hard to do well, that a person could benefit from having an expert create the cards for them.

Most people write sub-optimal prompts. You see them everywhere in the wild. Writing effective ones is really hard. See Andy's blog post about writing SRS prompts for the myriad considerations. Even just keeping the lenses in mind while creating prompts is very hard.