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Re:Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting by space_fountain on Saturday April 22, 2023 @01:59PM (#35669259)
> By the time LLMs are reliable enough to teach you, whatever you're learning is probably irrelevant since it can be solved better by LLM.

For solving the really common problem of working in a new area LLMs being unreliable isn't actually a big deal. If I just need to know what some math is called or understand how to use an equation, it's often very easy to verify an answer, but can be hard to find it through google. I might not know the right terms to search or my options might be hard to locate documentation or SEO spam

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Re:Prompt Engineering vs. Blind Prompting by moonchrome on Saturday April 22, 2023 @04:32PM (#35670647)
This is fair, using it as a starting point to learning could be useful if you're ready/able to do the rest of the process. Maybe I was too dismissive because it read to me like OP couldn't do that and thought he found the magic trick to skip that part.
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