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davidclarkyesterday at 9:46 PM1 replyview on HN

Good example of why I have been totally ignoring people who beat the drum of needing to develop the skills of interacting with models. “Learn to prompt” is already dead? Of course, the true believers will just call this an evolution of prompting or some such goalpost moving.

Personally, my goalpost still hasn’t moved: I’ll invest in using AI when we are past this grand debate about its usefulness. The utility of a calculator is self-evident. The utility of an LLM requires 30k words of explanation and nuanced caveats. I just can’t even be bothered to read the sales pitch anymore.


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simonwyesterday at 9:50 PM

We should be so far past the "grand debate about its usefulness" at this point.

If you think that's still a debate, you might be listening to the small pool of very loud people who insist nothing has improved since the release of GPT-4.

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