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by mattlondon 1042 days ago
Probably not very relevant IMHO.

I don't think "the future" will include much direct prompting of LLMs. It will all be integrated into some other tool as a means to an end - what we have today with a raw prompt-and-answer mode are just proof of concept toys.

I fully expect that LLMs will end up deeply integrated into other things, so obviously the code IDE use case, but also less obvious things like travel websites where to explain what sort of vacation you want to go on and it returns some options or you tell netflix what sort of movie/show you are in the mood for. Basically search/recommendation engines, with a bit of summarisation added in. I don't think direct prompting will be a thing for 99% of future uses, especially for the general public.

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And the prompting may be more domain / LLM specific. I currently use one that is more or less a analytics query engine and the prompts there are completely different compared to other use cases.