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LLMs reward expertise

The most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for. […] If you have a good theory of your codebase, you can push the LLM much harder than if you have no familiarity. Because you have your own sense of what a good solution might look like, you can say “no,...

Jeremy Herve
Oct 21, 20261 min read
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he most important skill in prompting is expertise in the domain you’re prompting for.

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If you have a good theory of your codebase, you can push the LLM much harder than if you have no familiarity. Because you have your own sense of what a good solution might look like, you can say “no, I think it could be simpler here”, or “but don’t we already do X?”, or “can we express this problem in these familiar terms?“.

LLMs reward expertise — Sean Goedecke

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