Prompting Is Programming

No. Prompting is Project Management. You’re setting expectations for what you want and waiting to see what the model provides. You may be learning to articulate things well enough for the specific model you’ve chosen to produce the output you want, but it’s not programming. Only when you manipulate the code is it…

This really resonated with me. My co-founder is a really smart man who cannot get good results out of LLMs. I haven't really gone into it with him in any detail, but his experience is like the academic in TFA; it just doesn't do what he wants it to do. I'll send him the article and see if a crash-course in "this is…

I’ll buy this. I get a lot more out of the code when I ask it to do things in steps. Though I absolutely still have to go through it robustly to protect against Claudisms, comments only Claude understands, function names that make sense only with maximum context and a dictionary of that same context, etc. and it…