alt Hacker NewsMost of the LLM prompting skills I figured out ~three years ago are still useful to me today. Even the ones that I've dropped are useful because I know that things that used to be helpful aren't helpful any more, which helps me build an intuition for how the models have improved over time.
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I agree with you, but would echo OP's concern, in a way that makes me feel like a party pooper, but, is open about what I see us all expressing squeamish-ness about.
It is somewhat bothersome to have another buzz phrase. I don't why we are doing this, other than there was a Xeet from the Shopify CEO, QT'd approvingly by Karpathy, then its written up at length, and tied to another set of blog posts.
To wit, it went from "buzzphrase" to "skill that'll probably be useful in 3 years still" over the course of this thread.
Has it even been a week since the original tweet?
There doesn't seem to be a strong foundation here, but due to the reach potential of the names involved, and their insistence on this being a thing while also indicating they're sheepish it is a thing, it will now be a thing.
Smacks of a self-aware version of Jared Friedman's tweet re: watching the invention of "Founder Mode" was like a startup version of the Potsdam Conference. (which sorted out Earth post-WWII. and he was not kidding. I could not even remember the phrase for the life of me. Lasted maybe 3 months?)
While researching the above posts Simon linked, I was struck by how many of these techniques came from the pre-ChatGPT era. NLP researchers have been dealing with this for awhile.