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Lots of people don’t think there’s any skill involved in working with LLMs. If you want the product that LLMs can deliver - PhD-level mathematics, computer code, or LinkedIn-style writing - you can simply ask for it. Since everyone is talking to the same models, “skilled prompters” are getting the same results as people touching LLMs for the first time.
This is wrong. The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for.
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if you have domain knowledge, you can wring far more value out of the same LLM by steering it hard in the direction you want. Most of us will have to do a mix of both these approaches, since we have domain knowledge in some areas but not others.
The difficult part is in communicating to the model exactly what kind of solution the human wants. The information is “in the model” already, but it takes a very smart human to pull it out.
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https://www.seangoedecke.com/llms-reward-expertise