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CharlesWtoday at 1:17 PM1 replyview on HN

> As effective as “make no mistakes.”

Those aren't comparable instructions. Providing useful, related context to improve outcomes is a basic best practice, and asking LLMs to do research first is an important source of that.


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Forgeties79today at 3:15 PM

I’ll admit I was being overly tongue-in-cheek with that. You’re right it is more useful. But it also can’t be trusted to do that reliably, it’s primary goal is to give you the core thing you asked for - and often this is regardless of the parameters you put around it.

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