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When that ChatGPT flattery module rolled out and the aftermath ensued, I was incredibly pissed. I actually thought for a few days that I had finally figured out how to structure prompts correctly and thought that when ChatGPT said "that's perfect" that I had given it a well-structured prompt and it was congratulating me on the structure of the prompt.

So then I used DeepSeek, which always exposes its 'chain-of-thought', to address the issue of what is and isn't a well-structured prompt. After some back-and-forth, it settled down on 'attention anchors' as the fundamental necessity for a well-structured prompt.

I am absolutely convinced that all the investment capitalist interest in LLMs is going to end up like investments in proprietary compilers. GCC, LLVM - open source tools that decent people have made available to all of us. Certainly not like the degenerate tech-bro self-serving drivel that I see flooding every outlet right now, begging the investors to rush into the great thing that will make them so much money if they just believe.

LLMs are great tools. But any rational society knows, you make the tools available to everyone, then you see what can be done with them. You can't patent the sun, after all.