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by simonw 87 days ago
Prompting in plain English doesn't mean learning to use AI tools is easy. I continue to believe that "AI is easy" is the single biggest misconception in the entire field.

I've been a daily user of LLMs since ChatGPT came out and I'm still figuring out new ways to use them on a daily basis.

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If you wrote a blog post about this, I would be very interested in reading it.

I'm certainly aware of fun things I can do with local models, which takes setup, and if you're into e.g. ComfyUI those workflows can get very complicated. But, that's more a hobby—I don't actually think I get better results this way vs naively prompting a SoTA model.

There are some more advanced workflows for e.g. Claude Code, but I feel like all of that is likely to go away once the underlying models get better (for example, longer context windows mean less need to manage context).

I've started putting together a whole guide! https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-pattern...