alt Hacker NewsEven for older models I was (and am) of the opinion that a lot of the context-overstuffing cruft people have been wrapping around their LLM usage is more of an RNG-impacting (but not always for the better) lucky charm rather than it being universally helpful.
And a lot of people latched on to it as a form of self-soothing.
"I may not write much code anymore, but I can still be an expert prompt engineer!"
> is more of an RNG-impacting (but not always for the better) lucky charm rather than it being universally helpful.
I wrote this last year, it's still true:
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https://dmitriid.com/prompting-llms-is-not-engineering
In reality these are just shamanic rituals with outcomes based on faith, fear, or excitement. Engineering it is not.
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There are some prompts useful for the user like brainstorming [1] but on the whole it's nothing but lucky charms
[1] brainstorming from superpowers: https://github.com/obra/superpowers