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by ollien 1160 days ago
> Keep in mind if I hand-wrote this I still have to write out the text-values which are 50% of the prompt's length. It did the names/IDs and the boilerplate.

This is the kind of thing that I really struggle with when trying to do something like this. Often the part that takes me the longest when writing snippets like those _is_ the copy (or at least, collecting my thoughts and/or notes to get the copy into my working memory), the code is quick enough. If I spend that same amount of time (or more) writing the prompt, I don't feel like I've saved much time.

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I agree; but that's why I like the above. I spend just as much time thinking of the text as I do the values/IDs/names, and it did that part for me. So in terms of my mental workload it is cut in half.

The above example is kind of silly in that FIFO/LILO are common terms, but this works just as well for very niche business names too.