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by TheAceOfHearts 1042 days ago
I think even learning to effectively integrate LLMs and other AI tools into your workflows can be a massive boon in both capabilities and productivity. It can change how you approach certain problems.

There's tons of small tricks and techniques to tease out vastly superior responses. When you're prompting for fairly generic or high level things it doesn't feel like there's that much difference in prompt style, but once you're trying to tease out highly specialized behavior there's tons of room for magic.

One of the tricks I've picked up on is that too many instructions and details often become a hindrance, so you need to figure out which parts to cut out and re-organize while still managing to get a high quality output.

Sometimes it's all about finding just the perfect words to describe exactly what you want. You can play around with variants and synonyms and get a feel for how the output is shaped.

Every model has quirks and preferences as well, so it takes a bit of playing around until you get a feel for how it interacts with your inputs. Admittedly a lot of this feels more like a vibe check than a science.