[wppick]

The higher your executive function the more use you will get out of LLMs. This is really the skill you should be testing for in interviews now. Not letting a candidate use AI for their interview is not a useful evaluation anymore. I want to see how you use it. Do you prompt well, how much are you trusting and verifying what it outputs

[procaryote]

Is "executive function" the thing you mean here? You need a lot of self control to write good prompts?

[kilna]

It takes good self control to not go down rabbit holes writing the wrong prompts, or prompts that produce interesting or pleasing results without necessarily solving the problem you intended to solve. Sycophantic LLMs are an addiction engine, in addition to being a guess-based autocomplete for thoughts.

[arthurcolle]

Executive functions just means exerting control over things. It can be self-control, but that can mean control over one's focus

[procaryote]

Yeah, I'm just struggling a bit to see how that is the key thing to write a good prompt

[wppick]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions

"Executive functions include basic cognitive processes such as attentional control, cognitive inhibition, inhibitory control, working memory, and cognitive flexibility. Higher-order executive functions require the simultaneous use of multiple basic executive functions and include planning and fluid intelligence (e.g., reasoning and problem-solving)."

Executive function is not just emotional control. It's higher levels of thinking. It's the E in CEO. AI is really just an amplifier, just like how a calculator in one person's hand could be much powerful than in someone else's