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by rubslopes 585 days ago
I had a problem like this recently. I was working with a Python library that I had never worked with before, and I was relying heavily on LLMs. I was stuck at a point where no LLM could solve my problem: o1, GPT-4o, Sonnet 3.5, Gemini Pro...

Then I had an idea: as it was a picture animation problem, I asked it to write it in CSS. Then I asked it to translate it to Python. Boom, it worked!

At this moment, I finally realized the value of knowing how to prompt. Most of the time it doesn't make a difference, but when things start to get complex, knowing how to speak with these assistants makes all the difference.