Not long ago, prompt writing felt like a personal skill. Something you refined quietly, stored in a notes app or copied between chat windows when something worked particularly well. That model no longer holds. Across organizations, Generative AI (GenAI) prompting is now shaping executive summaries, policy drafts, operational dashboards, clinical documentation and production user interfaces. Yet, in many environments, prompts remain scattered across chat histories, documents and inboxes—unowned, unversioned and largely invisible. What we’re seeing is a pattern familiar to anyone who has lived through the early—and still persistent—days of shadow IT, as described by David Talby in his article Shedding light on shadow AI. In practice, prompts are quietly becoming enterprise interfaces, but without the governance structures we instinctively apply to data, code or systems.

Full opinion : If your AI prompts influence policy, finance or patient care but live in chat threads, you don’t have innovation — you have unmanaged risk.