Re:Ask HN: What's your most valuable query to an LLM?
by kypro on Friday August 15, 2025 @10:43AM
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To be honest thing I find most doing most is asking the LLM to keep thing to some set number of sentences/paragraphs.
"In 4 sentences, how would you do x".
"In 2 paragraphs summerise the pros and cons of y".
Not really specific coding tasks, but ask these types of questions a lot because often I'm not trying to be an expert or deeply understanding something but get a feel for the consensus view.
LLMs tend to be verbose by default.
In terms of coding I often ask, "Don't make changes, but how would you improve this piece of code?" Or "Don't make changes, but what's wrong with this test?".
I find Cursor at least loves to make changes when I didn't really want it to. I was just asking for some thoughts / opinions.
"In 4 sentences, how would you do x".
"In 2 paragraphs summerise the pros and cons of y".
Not really specific coding tasks, but ask these types of questions a lot because often I'm not trying to be an expert or deeply understanding something but get a feel for the consensus view.
LLMs tend to be verbose by default.
In terms of coding I often ask, "Don't make changes, but how would you improve this piece of code?" Or "Don't make changes, but what's wrong with this test?".
I find Cursor at least loves to make changes when I didn't really want it to. I was just asking for some thoughts / opinions.