Re:Baiting the Bots
by Eisenstein on Sunday September 08, 2024 @06:22AM
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At this point I think what is happening some people either have a natural inclination or they spend time to learn how to use them productively, while others question their usefulness. People scoff at 'prompt engineering' but I see how some of my peers use LLMs and I think to myself 'how do they expect to get a good answer from that?'
It doesn't help that google is now mostly full of SEO nonsense, and technical documentation is impenetrable when you are looking for something specific but don't know enough about the system to know how to look for it.
I’m not personally against LLM assistance, I use it for programming and it has in many places replaced my usage of snippets completely. This is probably why I’m not really a fan of the “knowledge” part that LLMs are increasingly tasked to do. Because when you use them for programming you’ll get an accrue insight into how terrible they can be when they get things wrong.