Drew isn't using that term in a military context, he's using it in a gaming context. He defines what he means very clearly:

> The term “loadout” is a gaming term that refers to the specific combination of abilities, weapons, and equipment you select before a level, match, or round.

In the military you don't select your abilities before entering a level.

This seems like a rather unimportant type of mistake, especially because the definition is still accurate, it’s just the etymology isn’t complete.

>Drew makes some significant etymological mistakes. For example loadout doesn't come from gaming but military terminology

Does he pretend to give the etymology and ultimately origin of the term, or just where he or other AI-discussions found it? Because if it's the latter, he is entitled to call it a "gaming" term, because that's what it is to him and those in the discussion. He didn't find it in some military manual or learned it at boot camp!

But I would mostly challenge this mistake, if we admit it as such, is "significant" in any way.

The origin of loadout is totally irrelevant to the point he makes and the subject he discusses. It's just a useful term he adopted, it's history is not really relevant.

It _is_ a gaming term - it is also a military term (from which the gaming term arose).

> They might be good reads on the topic but Drew makes some significant etymological mistakes. For example loadout doesn't come from gaming but military terminology. It's essentially the same as kit or gear.

Doesn't seem that significant?

Not to say those blog posts say anything much anyway that any "prompt engineer" (someone who uses LLMs frequently) doesn't already know, but maybe it is useful to some at such an early stage of these things.

this is textbook pointless pedantry. I'm just commenting to find it again in the future.