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Re:Maximizing the Potential of LLMs: A Guide to Prompt Engin... by jameshart on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @12:39PM (#35527590)
The problem with the witchcraft practitioners is not that they are calling themselves engineers - it’s that they are practicing witchcraft.

Or rather… that they are peddling their ‘knowledge’ of witchcraft as having granted them the power to make an LLM perform useful work.

When what they have is a half-baked set of herbal remedies and magic words handed down (“Greg Rutkowski”) that, if they are any more effective than just placebo, it’s purely because of luck.

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