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LLMs are like your weird, over-confident intern | Simon Willison (Datasette)

Software Misadventures

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Mastery Requires Time and Experience

Achieving expertise in using language models requires a significant investment of time, with a recommendation of at least 10 hours of interaction to understand their capabilities. Developing the ability to predict the effectiveness of prompts hinges on experience, particularly in recognizing what types of questions are likely to be successful or not. This intuition is unique to each individual and cannot be easily transferred from one person to another, even with teaching. Building this expertise demands persistent effort and exposure to a variety of prompts and responses.

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