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bingemakertoday at 12:20 PM2 repliesview on HN

I still believe in writing good prompts or good instructions. Bad prompts can sometimes blow up the bill. A poorly written spec can waste a lot of tokens


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thunkytoday at 12:23 PM

Sure but lets not pretend this is engineering.

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lukantoday at 12:22 PM

Definitely. But the special knowledge how to talk to a certain model is usually not worth it.

Being able to write clear, always is.