[wodderam]

My experience is that for certain tasks LLMs are great, for certain tasks LLMS are basically useless.

The best prompts though are always written in a separate text file for me and pasted in. Follow up questions are never as good as a detailed initial prompt.

I would imagine well formulated questions to solve the problem at hand is a skill but beyond that I don't think there is anything special about how to ask LLMs a question.

In areas the LLM is rather useless, no amount of variation in prompting can solve that problem IMO. Just like if the tasks is something the LLM is good at, the prompt can be pretty sloppy and seem like magic with how it can understand what you want.

[simonw]

I think one of the most important skills is being able to predict which tasks an LLM is a good fit for and which aren't.