Comment by phillipcarter

1 day ago

I thought this was a very thoughtful essay. One brief piece I'll pull out:

> Does this mean I always want to write my own System Prompt from scratch? No. I've been using Gmail for twenty years; Gemini should be able to write a draft prompt for me using my emails as reference examples.

This is where it'll get hard for teams who integrate AI into things. Not only is retrieval across a large set of data hard, but this also implies a level of domain expertise on how to act that a product can help users be more successful with. For example, if the product involves data analysis, what are generally good ways to actually analyze the data given the tools at hand? The end-user often doesn't know this, so there's an opportunity to empower them ... but also an opportunity to screw it up and make too many assumptions about what they actually want to do.

This is "hard" in the sense of being a really good opportunity for product teams willing to put the work in to make products that subtly delight their users.